From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 5 13:34:23 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id NAA01976 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 5 Jun 1995 13:34:23 -0700 Received: from campino.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.225.2]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id NAA01948 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 1995 13:34:15 -0700 Received: from gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de by campino.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (4.1/campino-7) id AA08579; Mon, 5 Jun 95 22:33:48 +0200 Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.6.8/8.6.9) id WAA22292 for freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com; Mon, 5 Jun 1995 22:46:24 +0200 Date: Mon, 5 Jun 1995 22:46:24 +0200 From: "Christoph P. Kukulies" Message-Id: <199506052046.WAA22292@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: grand prix - fried? or just frozen? Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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