From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 3 12: 9:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14D9215010 for ; Mon, 3 May 1999 12:09:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA22051; Mon, 3 May 1999 12:09:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 12:09:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Theodore Hope Cc: jabbott@abbotts.org, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freeze on probing devices In-Reply-To: <199904301950.NAA07747@iguana.internexo.co.cr> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message