From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 6 11:09:09 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id LAA24995 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 6 Jul 1995 11:09:09 -0700 Received: from emory.mathcs.emory.edu (emory.mathcs.emory.edu [128.140.2.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id LAA24989 for ; Thu, 6 Jul 1995 11:09:06 -0700 Received: from bagend.UUCP by emory.mathcs.emory.edu (5.65/Emory_mathcs.4.0.14) via UUCP id AA11774 ; Thu, 6 Jul 95 14:09:03 -0400 Received: by bagend.atl.ga.us (Smail3.1.29.1 #1) id m0sTv0C-0004pHC; Thu, 6 Jul 95 13:46 EDT Message-Id: From: jan@bagend.atl.ga.us (Jan Isley) Subject: Re: Stabikity/Usability of 2.0.5R To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Date: Thu, 6 Jul 1995 13:46:16 -0400 (EDT) Cc: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl, davidg@Root.COM, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <9507052305.AA06876@cs.weber.edu> from "Terry Lambert" at Jul 5, 95 05:05:16 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1192 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Terry Lambert wrote: > > What a coincidence. [ deletia ] Same problems. I recall having the same problem here recently with a wd 1007 and a micropolis 1558. About the same time summer hit with a vengance and I retired the monsters until the weather cools... I do not have A/C here in Hotlanta and they were starting to shutdown from the heat. :( > Probably also an AT&T/NCR machine? doityourself ASUS PVI-486AP4, award bios autodects it correctly. > There is a jumper for "perfect media"... basically, self-replacement > of bad sectors. This is a geometry translation of a sort, but since > it's BIOS only, I don't have it on. I have no idea where the controller manual is ... don't know about that jumper. If you want me to try anything, tell me what. Peter da Silva asks: :> I have one question for these people installing FreeBSD on ESDI... how :> is the drive formatted? Did you use the WD BIOS or something like :> DiskManager? I used the onboard WD bios long ago, then reformatted with the award bios most recently... never diskmanager or the like. -- Jan Isley If you couldn't find any weirdness, maybe we'll just have to make some! -- Hobbes