Date: Sun, 5 Jul 1998 20:30:55 -0700 (PDT) From: lcremean@tidalwave.net To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: kern/7178: IDE Western Digital hard disk detection errors Message-ID: <199807060330.UAA23183@hub.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 7178 >Category: kern >Synopsis: IDE Western Digital hard disk detection errors >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: high >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Sun Jul 5 20:40:01 PDT 1998 >Last-Modified: >Originator: Lee Cremeans >Organization: N/A >Release: 2.2.6-RELEASE >Environment: FreeBSD 2.2.6-RELEASE install floppy >Description: (this is being reported for a friend, Chris Eslinger <yakko@yallp.com>) On a system with a Fujitsu 4.3 GB (master) and a Mitsumi ATAPI CD-ROM (slave)on the primary port, and two Western Digitals on the secondary (31600 as master, 31200 as slave), sometimes the 31200 will not be detected correctly--it either says it's using fake geometry values, or detects no model numbers and 0xFFFF for all the geometry parameters. This does not happen in OSes other than FreeBSD. >How-To-Repeat: Not known...I gather that it happens every time the boot floppy is used. >Fix: N/A >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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