From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jan 19 06:23:03 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id GAA02907 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 19 Jan 1997 06:23:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id GAA02902 for ; Sun, 19 Jan 1997 06:23:00 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id PAA03063; Sun, 19 Jan 1997 15:22:57 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.4/8.6.9) id PAA12162; Sun, 19 Jan 1997 15:20:18 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: 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 ... ? References: <199701191244.NAA00878@prospero.at.home> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199701191244.NAA00878@prospero.at.home>; from Thomas Graichen on Jan 19, 1997 13:44:27 +0100 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)