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From: aak2@Ra.MsState.Edu (Atif Ahmad Khan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Western Digital 2.5GB IDE HD doesn't work under FreeBSD !
Date: 1 May 1996 00:04:27 -0500
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j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes:

>aak2@Ra.MsState.Edu (Atif Ahmad Khan) writes:

>But you're aware that FreeBSD does use the BIOS just only for 10
>seconds after you turn on your computer?  It's 0xDEADBEEF after
>this...

You were right.  BIOS never was the problem.  I later found out the it was
my Intel PCI 100Mbps ethernet card, driver for which was just dying for no
apparent reason.

>>Now FreeBSD is getting the right parameters and doesnt give me an

>What are ``the right parameters'' in your book?

I was hoping that the parameters printed on the drive were the right
parameters.

>Needless to say, i wouldn't waste my money in a poor and braindead IDE
>interface when buying a 2.5Gig drive, but you did it...

This drive looks pretty good.  Like I said, it was the driver for my ethernet
card that was the problem and I was thinking it was the drive.

I did buy a Fujitsu 2GB Fast SCSI drive that didn't work with freebsd at
all.  I couldn't even get past fdisk on that one.  I am now using that
as a NT/DOS drive on another computer.  A friend of mine who had had plenty
of experience with SCSI drives thought it was very strange what he saw
when we tried to install FreeBSD on that SCSI drive but even after several
tries couldn't resolve the problem.

Atif Khan
aak2@ra.msstate.edu