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Date:      Mon, 3 May 1999 12:09:09 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Theodore Hope <freebsd@iguana.internexo.co.cr>
Cc:        jabbott@abbotts.org, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: freeze on probing devices
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.03.9905031208490.20321-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199904301950.NAA07747@iguana.internexo.co.cr>

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On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, Theodore Hope wrote:

> > 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?

CHS / LBA difficulty?  

Doug White                               
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
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