Date: Sat, 13 Sep 1997 14:56:32 -0700 From: Jason Liao <jasonl@xinetron.com> To: "John T. Farmer" <jfarmer@sabre.goldsword.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, jfarmer@goldsword.com Subject: Re: Failed to install on WD WDC33100H HDD Message-ID: <341B0C10.75BCFCEA@xinetron.com> References: <199709131743.NAA09598@sabre.goldsword.com>
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Thank you for your reply. John T. Farmer wrote: [ Jason Liao's original post snipped ] > I don't recall seeing the thread on WD drives, but I use the WD cavier > > drives (EIDE) models for all my clients' Win/Dos, etc. workstations > AND for low end mail servers & routers. Matter of fact, I have one > with the 2.1gb drive running on the build/burn-in bench now... I used WD cavier 540MB before. It worked fine under FreeBSD. The problem is with WDC33100H. I had no chance to test other big WD IDE HDDs. > What type of motherboard/controller are you using with the drive? > It sounds like a BIOS/LBA type conflict, though the drive should > be detectable. When you boot the board, what does the BIOS tell > you? Is it auto-detecting the drive? Setting up any weird mappings? > Are you setting the disk up to be used by both WinDos and FreeBSD? The motherboards/controllers are ordinary Intel VX (Pentium, Award Bios) and 440FX(Pentium Pro, AMI Bios) MBs. They worked fine with Fujitsu 1.2G, 2.5G and 5 GB IDE HDDs. The BIOS was set to LBA off, no translation, no weird mapping. The WD hard disk was new and there was nothing on it when I tried to install FreeBSD. I returned the WD hard disk to the retailer and got a Fujitsu. Looks like it's something related to DMA ( a messages said something about `drq'). Does the HDD expects DMA transfer while FreeBSD wants PIO? I don't know. Thank you for your response again. > > > John > > ---- > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > John T. Farmer Proprietor, GoldSword Systems > jfarmer@goldsword.com Public Internet Access in East > Tennessee > dial-in (423)470-9953 for info, e-mail to info@goldsword.com > > Network Design, Internet Services & Servers, Consulting -- --------------------- Jason Liao <jasonl@xinetron.com> ---------------------
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