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Date:      Fri, 30 Apr 1999 13:50:52 -0600 (CST)
From:      Theodore Hope <freebsd@iguana.internexo.co.cr>
To:        jabbott@abbotts.org
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: freeze on probing devices
Message-ID:  <199904301950.NAA07747@iguana.internexo.co.cr>
In-Reply-To: <9904301449470J.01771@reaper.northfield.com> from "abbott in Northfield" at Apr 30, 99 02:38:32 pm

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> What I figured out (so far) is FreeBSD does not like the ST32132A
> hard drive as a master.  oops, install just died again, maybe it
> doesn't like it at all.
> 
> What I did was dug around the juck pile until I found an old seagate
> 245 meg drive and installed it as the only hard drive.  The device
> probe worked just fine.  Then I installed the ST32132A as a slave
> and started over.  Again the device probe worked ok.  Now the
> trouble is when I get to the part which is the FreeBSD disklabel
> editor it reports wd1, wd1s1 as 7225281 blocks or 3527Meg.  but
> the drive is only a 2113.

In my case, it _does_ show the disk (Seagate whatever...).  I find
it hard to believe that freebsd would even care about it, since
it's just another IDE (wd0) disk.    Comments, Doug?

-T.


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