Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 12:56:43 -0600 (MDT) From: Wes Peters <softweyr@xmission.com> To: Kevin Eliuk <kevin_eliuk@sunshine.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re:OOPS: Question on preparing for Re-Install Message-ID: <199704201856.MAA07886@obie.softweyr.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970419182028.315B-100000@kevin.sunshine.net> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970416060117.209A-100000@kevin.sunshine.net> <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970419182028.315B-100000@kevin.sunshine.net>
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Kevin Eliuk writes:
> > wdc0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14 on isa
> > wdc0: unit 0 (wd0): <Maxtor 71084 AP>
> > wd0: 1036MB (2121840 sectors), 2105 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T,
> > 512 B/S
> > (LBA OnTrack 7.04)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This may just be what bit your original installation; you cannot use
"LBA" mode with FreeBSD. You *must* tell FreeBSD the *real* geometry
of the disk.
> I've done the re-install and Although I don't have the original of your
> reply I remember your comment about "another Maxtor drive failing" well
> I'm pleased (although slightly embarassed) to say it was "another Maxtor
> owner failure to read all the instructions" failure :-!
I've not had any more problems with Maxtor disks than any other brand.
> Everything seems hunky dory, ran lmbench without a crash but I gather
> without more memory it dogs down in the in the latency tests because its
> defaults are minimum 8MB. Is this true?
Yeah, 5 meg is pretty minimal for FreeBSD. I recently upgraded from 16M
to 32M because I was tired of paging while running Emacs and Netscape
under X! ;^)
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
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