Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 11:14:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Vincent Poy <vince@venus.GAIANET.NET> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD w/ 7 GIG Maxtor IDE HD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971023111138.2937A-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971023001800.259G-100000@venus.GAIANET.NET>
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On Thu, 23 Oct 1997, Vincent Poy wrote: > > > Today I attempted to install FreeBSD on a Maxtor 7 GIG EIDE Hard > > > Drive but was unsuccessful. With the drive plugged in, FreeBSD probes the > > > drive as 14475 cylinders, 8207 Heads, and 8255 Sectors per track while the > > > drive and the BIOS has it as 14475 cylinders, 15 Heads, and 63 sectors per > > > track. With the drive plugged in, the FreeBSD boot disk never made it to > > > the sysinstall menu but just hung there until I booted without the drive > > > attached. > > > > Hung where, exactly? Some systems have adverse effects to the terminal > > init stuff in the dialog library and will jam there. My laptop happens to > > be one of them. Try the new 2.2.5 install floppy, and don't worry too > > much about the geometry as of yet. If you are dedicating the whole disk > > to FreeBSD, it may help to put a DOS partition on the disk, then delete it > > and install FreeBSD over it. This helps sysinstall get the geometry > > right. > > The part where it hangs is during the boot disk probing, right > after the probing, it's supposed to go to the sysinstall menu, instead, it > just hangs there. So, what do you see on the screen when this locks up? I think I know where this is, but i'd like to confirm. > I've verified this with the 2.2.5-RELEASE floppy as > well. The funny thing is the boot disk works fine with even a 9 GIG Fast > Wide SCSI drive and smaller IDE drives except for this one. Is the IDE controller (wdc) and the disk probing properly? You can hit Scroll-Lock and use the arrow keys to scroll back. > I tried dedicating a whole disk with FreeBSD but never made it that far. > I ran /stand/sysinstall as well and normally it would ask me which > drives I want to install FreeBSD on but instead, it just defaults to sd0 > without giving me a choice. This sounds like the disk isn't probing properly. > As long as I can get to the sysinstall menu, I can type in the geometry > for the drive but I can't. It seems like the drive itself is reporting > the wrong info since it says Maxvor instead of Maxtor when probed. That's odd. I wonder if the firmware on your disk is corrupted or is buggy. > I tried doing a dos partition but the largest partition fat16 supports > is 2 gigs so it didn't really make a difference. I was just wondering > if anyone out there got this Maxtor 7 gig or any of the 6.4 gig drives > working. The problem with big disks is that after about 4 gigs, the access times start hurting your performance. You can get better performance by using two 4 gig disks, which allows you to overlay commands on each disk (assuming you're using SCSI or one IDE controller per disk). Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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