Date: Sun, 19 Jan 1997 15:20:18 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: graichen@rzpd.de (Thomas Graichen) Cc: tech@OpenBSD.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: magic of western digital disks ... ? Message-ID: <Mutt.19970119152018.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199701191244.NAA00878@prospero.at.home>; from Thomas Graichen on Jan 19, 1997 13:44:27 %2B0100 References: <199701191244.NAA00878@prospero.at.home>
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As Thomas Graichen wrote: > ...on another machine i get errors like "hard error reading block > ..." - but the disk is completely ok and works fine with FreeBSD - > it also works fine if it is entered into the bios (... btw. after > getting the "hard error ..." messages i was short before throwing > the disk away - until i discovered that setting it in the bios > helped :-) This sounds like an initialization problem. If you register it with the BIOS, the BIOS does some initialization on the disk. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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