Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 10:43:44 -0400 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@iowna.com> To: Len Conrad <LConrad@Go2France.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2nd ata drive, and resolv.conf options Message-ID: <3B3359A0.30669930@iowna.com> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20010622153827.02fa0da0@mail.Go2France.com>
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[You may get better responses if you send 2 seperate emails with one question in each] Len Conrad wrote: > ad1: 73308MB <IBM-DTLA-307075> [148945/16/63] at ata0-slave UDMA100 If it's any help, I'm using that exact same drive currently and it's sort of working. I'm having trouble with random panics on this system, but I haven't yet isolated as to what's causing them. There may be a problem with this drive, but I haven't isolated it yet to be sure. > "WARNING: A geometry of 148945/16/63 for ad1 is incorrect. etc" > > but full-screen fdisk and disklabel work ok. I leave sysintall, and try Did you use "dangerously dedicated" mode? I was able to get a booting, running system on this drive using "dangerously dedicated" mode. > mfb1# fdisk -BI ad1 > ******* Working on device /dev/ad1 ******* > fdisk: invalid fdisk partition table found Odd ... What does fdisk with no parameters say? > I´m not on site to play with it, but somebody is. What do I tell the > person to do? is the 73 gb useable? swap out the disk for an 8 gb like ad0 ? If you need the system up immediately, you should probably use a different drive. If you can afford to struggle with it for a while, I would appreciate it if we could work together to figure out if there's something wrong with this model of drive. -Bill -- If a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, then what can I get for two hands in the bush? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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