Date: Fri, 29 Mar 96 03:44:20 PST From: "Brett Glass" <Brett_Glass@ccgate.infoworld.com> To: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org> Cc: jkh@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cannot boot after install Message-ID: <9602298281.AA828112246@ccgate.infoworld.com>
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After giving up on getting the EISA/SCSI system to work with FreeBSD, I switched to a Zeos Pantera 486 DX4/100 with a Seagate ST5660A IDE hard disk. This is a "green" hard disk that shuts down after periods of inactivity, then spins up when it's needed again. It can be configured not to, but FreeBSD doesn't change the hard disk's default setting. Unfortunately, the spin-downs play hob with FreeBSD's IDE disk driver. As soon as the system was installed and seemed healthy, I brought up jove to edit a configuration file for a customized kernel. While I was editing, the drive shut down. When I tried to save, the console was splattered with messages indicating timeouts and "unwedge failures." The disk was corrupted, and the entire install was lost. Does anyone know of a way I can get THIS system stabilized? --Brett
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