From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 13 14:57:15 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA02222 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 13 Sep 1997 14:57:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from www.xinetron.com (www.xinetron.com [206.86.215.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA02216 for ; Sat, 13 Sep 1997 14:57:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pop.xinetron.com (pop.xinetron.com [206.86.215.82]) by www.xinetron.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA01336; Sat, 13 Sep 1997 14:56:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jason.xinetron.com (jason.xinetron.com [206.86.215.94]) by pop.xinetron.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA18503; Sat, 13 Sep 1997 14:55:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <341B0C10.75BCFCEA@xinetron.com> Date: Sat, 13 Sep 1997 14:56:32 -0700 From: Jason Liao Organization: Xinetron, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.01 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "John T. Farmer" CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, jfarmer@goldsword.com Subject: Re: Failed to install on WD WDC33100H HDD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) References: <199709131743.NAA09598@sabre.goldsword.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 ---------------------