From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 3 21: 8:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 986DB37C65D for ; Sat, 3 Jun 2000 21:08:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@wantadilla.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA40889; Sun, 4 Jun 2000 13:38:36 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2000 13:38:36 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Dragos Ruiu Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: More 40gig drive problems Message-ID: <20000604133836.C85628@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <00060321035701.00370@kyxbot.zorg> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <00060321035701.00370@kyxbot.zorg> Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday, 3 June 2000 at 21:00:36 -0700, Dragos Ruiu wrote: > Asus P2-99 - celeron 433 > Maxtor 40Gb drive with the "cylinder limit jumper in" to get past BIOS lockup. > FreeBSD 4.0 Install CD on ATAPI CDROM > > Gets as far as probing devices... and it definitely may take some > time as the on-screen message warns - potentially infinite it seems. Are you saying the system locks up? If so, it would help to state so explicitly. > Anybody run into this and successfully overcome it? How are the BIOS settings for this drive? It should be LBA. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message