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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Western Digital 2.5GB IDE HD doesn't work under FreeBSD ! Date: 2 May 1996 16:04:53 +0100 Organization: Coverform Ltd. Lines: 52 Message-ID: <4maiul$e8@anorak.coverform.lan> References: <aak2.830530576@ra.msstate.edu> <4m3dua$3db@uriah.heep.sax.de> <aak2.830926735@Ra.MsState.Edu> X-NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Atif Ahmad Khan (aak2@Ra.MsState.Edu) wrote: : 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 Maybe the problem was the adapter.... I got a ~730Mb Fujitsu drive and it did a few peculiar things: With a 1542B, it wouldn't work non-terminated - all my other hardware did. (it was an accident that it wasn't terminated). Once terminated it worked fine. With a 2940W, the drive wouldn't work until I switched off sync and wide negotiation and set transfer speed to 8Mb. Apart from that, it works fine ! Now IBM drives & spin-up... that's another story ! -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....