From nobody Fri Sep 6 02:12:46 2024 X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4X0KWh0P6cz5VDQS for ; Fri, 06 Sep 2024 02:13:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bc979@lafn.org) Received: from mail.sermon-archive.info (sermon-archive.info [47.181.130.121]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4X0KWg0hPCz4phS for ; Fri, 6 Sep 2024 02:13:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bc979@lafn.org) Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=none; dmarc=none; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of bc979@lafn.org designates 47.181.130.121 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=bc979@lafn.org Received: from smtpclient.apple (unknown [10.0.1.19]) by mail.sermon-archive.info (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4X0KWX1v8mz2fk0l for ; Thu, 05 Sep 2024 19:12:56 -0700 (PDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable From: Doug Hardie List-Id: User questions List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-questions List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (1.0) Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2024 19:12:46 -0700 Subject: Booting a Toshiba Laptop Message-Id: To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: iPad Mail (21G93) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 1.3.1 at mail X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spamd-Bar: --- X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-3.08 / 15.00]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-1.00)[-0.997]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-0.99)[-0.991]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-0.99)[-0.990]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+mx]; ONCE_RECEIVED(0.10)[]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; RCVD_NO_TLS_LAST(0.10)[]; RCPT_COUNT_ONE(0.00)[1]; ASN(0.00)[asn:5650, ipnet:47.181.128.0/18, country:US]; RCVD_COUNT_ONE(0.00)[1]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; RCVD_VIA_SMTP_AUTH(0.00)[]; TO_DN_NONE(0.00)[]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_ALL(0.00)[]; APPLE_IOS_MAILER_COMMON(0.00)[]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[lafn.org: no valid DMARC record]; PREVIOUSLY_DELIVERED(0.00)[freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; MLMMJ_DEST(0.00)[freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[] X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4X0KWg0hPCz4phS I am checking out a Toshiba Satellite A655 laptop. I have no problems booti= ng a USB memstick for Freebsd 14.1. However, it appears the internal drive h= as some issues. It writes zeros just fine over the entire disk. It errors q= uickly when writing random data. So the question is if the problem is the d= rive or interface chips. I tried to build an external drive with the memsti= ck but it will not boot however I format it. The memstick is GPT with both a= MBR boot and UFE boot. I have tried every combination I can think of and n= one of them work on an external spinner. How should the drive be formatted t= o boot? -- Doug=