Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 10:05:28 -0800 (PST) From: Brian Beattie <Brian_Beattie@atlas.com> To: "Roger P. Johnson" <rpj@fep.hirshfields.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: follow up: Re: HELP! on drive Geometry and I just can't get it! Just cant't Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980316094804.316D-100000@coyote.prepaid.atlas.com> In-Reply-To: <199803131406.IAA18050@fep.hirshfields.com>
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On Fri, 13 Mar 1998, Roger P. Johnson wrote: > > Brian, I tried low level formatting it again (been through sooo many combo's, > thought I'd try from scratch again), re-installing FBSD from scratch, dedicating > the whole drive to FBSD, no luck. I get that 'Read error' on boot again. :( > > Brian, is that 1Gb drive you use at home with the 1542/2940U ??? Would it be > a Seagate drive ? I have a 1GB Maxtor and a 2GB Seagate, both of which are currently on the 2940U. I did have the 1GB on the 1542. I do not believe the brand of drive has any thing to do with this issue. > > I've tried a "shared" disk in the partion editor, using as much of the disk as I can > for FBSD, making sure the partion is indeed active, and this time I get the message > "No operating system" on boot. Geez. :( > > I've read the man pages on fdisk, disklabel, man I just cannot get these 1 GB drives > to work with the 2940 series contollers. > > I've got 2 brand new ST31055N 1GB SCSC-3 hard drives as of 6 months ago, > 1 brand new 2940AU SCSI-3 controller > and 1 brand new 2940 SCSI-2 controller, all that I cannot use! > > > I really fail to understand why I MUST, MUST have a dos partion installed on these > drives in order to get the geometry correct and for FBSD to boot. > You must have what you call a dos partiton because that is what the bios is looking for to boot from. > I have no alternative but to stay with the 1542 ISA controller and these 1GB drives. Yuk. > Are 1542's even made anymore ? If so how much longer till they are discontinued? > > All I can say is that since 1GB HD are pretty rare nowdays, I do have a 2940 w/2GB w/FBSD > working, maybe when the old 1GB drive crashes, this icky problem with the 1GB drives will > disapear also. BUT then the 2GB drives will be phased out and I'll have this same problem > all over again with the new drives at the current time. Ugh! > > This HAS to be a contoller/HD combo issue! > I disagree. > I don't get it. I quit on this topic. I'm using the 1542. Ugh. > I'll take the 2940 off your hands for $25 > > Thank you for your reply's and suggestions. > Your description of what you have done is a little vague is several places. This makes it a little diffuicult for me to be sure what it is you have done. I find when I have tried many different combinations that I start losing track of what I have done. I would suggest you eliminate as many variables as possible by doing as follows: Install the 2940 and a single scsi drive into a system. lowlevel format the drive. boot from the boot floppy. Partition the disk with a single FreeBSD Partition (do not use "dangerously dedicated" partitioning). label the disk, using the defaults (thus keeping the root partition within the first 1024 cyclinders). Install FreeBSD. If you do exactally this and it does not work let me know. Brian Beattie Atlas PrePaid Services Brian_Beattie@atlas.com 503.228.1400x4355 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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