Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 07:53:21 -0700 From: Jason Liao <jasonl@xinetron.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Failed to install on WD WDC33100H HDD Message-ID: <34195761.2FEBB195@xinetron.com>
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Greetings, I tried to install FreeBSD 2.2.1 and 2.2.2 to a Western Digital WDC33100H IDE HDD (3.1G). The kernel booted off the floppy and detected the correct model and size of the HDD. However, it hung after displaying `/stand/sysinstall running as init on vty0'. Pressing Alt+F3 made the computer scream and only a hard reset could stop it. Installing to other HDDs is OK. Then I hooked the WDC33100H as a slave disk to an existing FreeBSD 2.2.1 system. When I tried to fdisk, fdisk reported wrong geometry and the kernel gave out lots of error messages: wd1s1c: hard error reading fsbn 1wd1: status 59<rdy, seekdone, drq, err> error 10<no_id> I connected the HDD back to a new system as the only HDD and booted with a kernel from a floppy diskette. I issued the following command: dd if=/dev/rwd0c of=/dev/null bs=1b count=512 I got the error message: wd0s1c: wdstart: timeout waiting to give command reading fsbn 1wd0: status 0 error 0 wd0s1c: wdstart: timeout waiting to give command reading fsbn 1wd0: status 0 error 1 <no_dam> The error messages repeated and the system hung. Any hints? Your help is appreciated. P.S. I tried this HDD on different computers ( Pentium and Pentium PRO), the same result. The HDD is OK in DOS environment. I heard of someone else encountered this problem on WD HDDs about 1 or 2 months ago. -- --------------------- Jason Liao <jasonl@xinetron.com> ---------------------
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