Date: Sat, 1 May 1999 08:43:47 -0500 From: abbott in Northfield <jabbott@abbotts.org> To: Theodore Hope <freebsd@iguana.internexo.co.cr> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freeze on probing devices - update still problems. Message-ID: <9905010901280W.01771@reaper.northfield.com> References: <199904301950.NAA07747@iguana.internexo.co.cr>
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I am still having troubles with this machine. I altered the drive geometry to 1023/64/63 (the information I got from the seagate site) and still the drive would not seem to format or disk label correctly. The install began but since I use the big drive as /usr it was sticking everything in / until the root partition filled up and the install failed. Now I can't even get the install to work again because during device probing if I hit an alt-F2 I see many, many lines of devstat_end_transaction: HELP! busy_count for wd1 is <0 (-95xxxx)! biodone:buffer already done It really seems like this 3.x release is weak in it's install. I run it on two other machines and it has been a difficult install both times but once it is running it has run fine. I am just begining to wonder if it is worth the effort on this one. --ja On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, Theodore Hope wrote: > > What I figured out (so far) is FreeBSD does not like the ST32132A > > hard drive as a master. oops, install just died again, maybe it > > doesn't like it at all. > > > > What I did was dug around the juck pile until I found an old seagate > > 245 meg drive and installed it as the only hard drive. The device > > probe worked just fine. Then I installed the ST32132A as a slave > > and started over. Again the device probe worked ok. Now the > > trouble is when I get to the part which is the FreeBSD disklabel > > editor it reports wd1, wd1s1 as 7225281 blocks or 3527Meg. but > > the drive is only a 2113. > > In my case, it _does_ show the disk (Seagate whatever...). I find > it hard to believe that freebsd would even care about it, since > it's just another IDE (wd0) disk. Comments, Doug? > > -T. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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