From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 3 21:21:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc2.bc.home.com (ha1.rdc2.bc.wave.home.com [24.2.10.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF5DF37C65D for ; Sat, 3 Jun 2000 21:21:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dr@dursec.com) Received: from kyxbot.zorg ([24.113.134.64]) by mail.rdc2.bc.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.17 201-229-119) with SMTP id <20000604042135.WWVV28518.mail.rdc2.bc.home.com@kyxbot.zorg>; Sat, 3 Jun 2000 21:21:35 -0700 From: Dragos Ruiu Organization: kyx.net To: Greg Lehey Subject: Re: More 40gig drive problems Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2000 21:18:31 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <00060321035701.00370@kyxbot.zorg> <20000604133836.C85628@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20000604133836.C85628@wantadilla.lemis.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00060321203402.00370@kyxbot.zorg> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 03 Jun 2000, Greg Lehey wrote: > 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. > It looks like a lock up.... but it's a big drive so I didn't want to jump to assumptions. > > Anybody run into this and successfully overcome it? > > How are the BIOS settings for this drive? It should be LBA. It is. thanks, --dr -- dursec.com ltd. / kyx.net - we're from the future http://www.dursec.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message