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Date:      Mon, 5 Jun 1995 22:46:24 +0200
From:      "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   grand prix - fried? or just frozen?
Message-ID:  <199506052046.WAA22292@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>

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As if warnings from the hackers list had not been enough to keep me
from buying a Quantum (DEC) grand prix (4GB) drive, it must have
been the FreeBSD daemon that had ridden me when I withstood all these
voices. Now here I am:

The drive gives a read i/o error when the 2.0.5-ALPHA sysinstall
tries to write the partition info/disklabel.

So I went back to a 1.1.5.1R install disk and tried it. No luck:
sd0(aha0:0:0): timeout
adapter not taking commands.. frozen?!
DEbugger("aha1542") called. AGAIN
aha0: MBO not free

and so on.
The AH on board LED and the drive select LED on the drive were lit and
kept so even after a RESET.

Running the controller/disk diagnostics seems to work fine, though.

Any ideas? Bring the drive back and buy another one? What are good
high capacity drives these days?


--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
FreeBSD blues.physik.rwth-aachen.de 2.0-BUILT-19950531 FreeBSD 2.0-BUILT-1995
0531 #0: Wed May 31 06:16:35 MET DST 1995     root@blues.physik.rwth-aachen.d
e:/usr/src/sys/compile/BLUESGUS  i386



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