Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 20:24:57 -0600 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Panics & bad reads from 3.3-RELEASE install with aha2940u2w.... Message-ID: <199911170224.UAA17266@nospam.hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Message from Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com> of "Tue, 16 Nov 1999 20:55:54 EST." <199911170155.UAA00504@lakes.dignus.com>
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Thomas David Rivers writes: > You mentioned that 3.2 installed just fine - I'm guessing it was > from a non-SCSI CD, or over the net. Used a $32 32x Hitachi CD from a PC surplus shop. It makes quite a noise when it spins up to full speed but has worked perfectly. > [I've got the same IBM drives, I believe... - which makes your > experiment even more interesting to me.. if you succeed, I will be > jealous :-) ] Dug thru my receipts and found they (two) are IBM DDRS-39130UW. MB BIOS was originally 1008a its now 1010?, possibly beta. Spent 2 months going around in circles with Iomega over an ATAPI Zip-100 before finally getting an RMA. Replacement worked perfectly. But in the mean time I fixe a lot of stuff that wasn't broken. Such as the BIOS. If ever dealing with Iomega, don't let them know the BIOS is able to see their Zip drive. Especially don't mention "the BIOS manual says it knows how to boot a Zip drive." Their tech support will focus on that as the problem for a long time even when you insist, "No, the problem is it *worked* when the BIOS saw it, now the BIOS doesn't and meanwhile the Zip drive happens not to work." -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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