Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 08:34:30 +0300 From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il> To: Jason Garman <garman@phs.k12.ar.us> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Accessing primary&secondary ide interface freezes 2.1.5 Message-ID: <323CE6E6.321B@barcode.co.il> References: <Pine.LNX.3.95.960915015734.15579B-100000@phs.k12.ar.us>
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Jason Garman wrote: > > I just received a new 2 gig ide hard drive and promptly installed it in my > computer, attaching it to the secondary ide interface on my motherboard > (which is a cmd640b controller). > > Anyhow, the drive is detected on bootup: > > wdc0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14 on isa > wdc0: unit 0 (wd0): <QUANTUM LIGHTNING 730A> > wd0: 696MB (1427328 sectors), 1416 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S > wdc0: unit 1 (atapi): <CD-ROM CDU55E/1.0u>, removable, accel, dma, iordy > wdc1 at 0x170-0x177 irq 15 on isa > wdc1: unit 0 (wd2): <Maxtor 72004 AP> > wd2: 1916MB (3924144 sectors), 3893 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S > > And accessing the drive works fine. I managed to fdisk it and disklabel > it for FreeBSD. > > However, the problem comes when I try to access both interfaces (i.e. the > cdrom and the new 2gig hd, or my old 730meg hd and the new 2 gig hd) at > once, at which point the computer simply freezes completely. Obviously > this makes this setup totally unusuable. > > Has anyone seen this before?? Any way to avoid this? Any suggestions > whatsoever? I've been banging my head over this for weeks now.I had this problem when I first tried to install FreeBSD 2.1.0. I only realized what it was much later (after I dumped one of the disks... :-(. I have absolutly no idea on what it might be, but one thing I can tell you is that I had a FIREBALL too, so it might be something with those. I'd really like to know if anyone has any solution to this problem as I have a lot of machines with a CMD640 (all DEC Venturis) and would like to have the option of having two drives + a CD on those. > > Thanks, > -- > Jason Garman http://www.nesc.k12.ar.us/~garman/ > Student, Eleanor Roosevelt High School garman@phs.k12.ar.usNadav
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