Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 18:05:15 +0200 From: Steve Mazerski <smazerski@yahoo.co.jp> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Dang harddisk, or: WDC AC28400R - something wrong? Message-ID: <200207141805.15669.smazerski@yahoo.co.jp>
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I've been spending a happy weekend trying to install FreeBSD for evaluation purposes (*). Unfortunately my trusty WDC AC28400R - a Westerm Digital IDE hard disk of ca. 8GB capacity doesn't get on well with FreeBSD (or maybe it's the other way round). As described in previous mails I was able to install FreeBSD on this disk, which for technical and historical reasons is the first disk in my PC, but on booting the FreeBSD bootloader was unaccountably slow, causing the disk to make a very worrying "thack thwock" sound, before it eventually got round to actually booting. (Note: the disk _seems_ to be OK, the other operating systems inhabiting it still boot without any evident problems). Does anyone anywhere have an idea of what's up with this disk, or FreeBSD and this disk? The disk itself has never given any problems under Linux or Windows. Anyway... having established that it was the disk at fault, not any other part of the hardware, I have just cleared=20 a partition on the second hard disk (an IBM of some sort), which was great fun, because it's where all the real data is, (most of it in a giant logical Linux partition...) and installed FreeBSD there. This installation booted normally, with no worrying HD noises.=20 Just wanted to mention it for the records. S.Mazerski To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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