From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 1 6:59:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from www.abbotts.org (www.abbotts.org [206.9.120.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 785331508C for ; Sat, 1 May 1999 06:59:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jabbott@abbotts.org) Received: from reaper.northfield.com (pmnort2-119.rconnect.com [209.163.34.119]) by www.abbotts.org (8.9.2/8.9.2) with SMTP id IAA39386; Sat, 1 May 1999 08:34:17 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from jabbott@abbotts.org) From: abbott in Northfield Reply-To: jabbott@abbotts.org To: Theodore Hope Subject: Re: freeze on probing devices - update still problems. Date: Sat, 1 May 1999 08:43:47 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.17] Content-Type: text/plain Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <199904301950.NAA07747@iguana.internexo.co.cr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <9905010901280W.01771@reaper.northfield.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-KMail-Mark: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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