From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Dec 25 20:55:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from schooner.svjava.com (schooner.svjava.com [204.75.228.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63F5B15077 for ; Sat, 25 Dec 1999 20:55:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kozowski@svjava.com) Received: (from kozowski@localhost) by schooner.svjava.com (8.9.1a/svjava.com) id UAA22576; Sat, 25 Dec 1999 20:55:40 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 25 Dec 1999 20:55:40 -0800 From: Eric Kozowski To: Greg Lehey Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 36 GB IDE Hard Drives Message-ID: <19991225205540.A22423@schooner.svjava.com> References: <000801bf4db2$18798dc0$333c5d18@austin.rr.com> <19991224213939.A15752@schooner.svjava.com> <19991226102111.F1316@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.7i In-Reply-To: <19991226102111.F1316@freebie.lemis.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, Dec 26, 1999 at 10:21:11AM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: > I don't know how you can determine that this is the "same problem". s/same/similar/ > There are almost no details of what happened. The BIOS upgrade > wouldn't make any difference, since FreeBSD doesn't use the BIOS. right, but the maxtor site says some of it's 36gb drives have problems w/ older bios that cause formats to fail. http://www.maxtor.com/technology/infobulls/13027.html > I'm currently investigating some reported problems in this area. > Specifically, ufs file systems of 27.5 GB and up have been reported to > fail to create file systems. On one occasion, newfs reported that the > file system was read only. In another case, the newfs completed, but > the system paniced writing to the file system. It would be nice to > know what *really* happened to each of you. newfs croaked w/ the read only error. i tried using both the tools in /stand/sysinstall and the equivalent cli commands. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message