From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jun 16 10:45:58 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA00814 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 16 Jun 1996 10:45:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from covina.lightside.com (covina.lightside.com [207.67.176.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA00807 for ; Sun, 16 Jun 1996 10:45:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: by covina.lightside.com (Smail3.1.28.1 #6) id m0uVLtU-0004KCC; Sun, 16 Jun 96 10:45 PDT Date: Sun, 16 Jun 1996 10:45:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Jake Hamby To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Yves Lepage , hackers@freebsd.org, yves@maelstrom.CC.McGill.CA Subject: Re: IBM HD's In-Reply-To: <20612.834854485@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 15 Jun 1996, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > - Quantum Fireball > > I can also verify this one - we had a machine at the office with one > of these drives in it (before it was torn apart for scrap :-) and we > never could get FreeBSD to install on it. Exact same symptoms. > > I never did figure out what was going on and the machine is history > now so I never will.. Hmmmm. I wonder if the output of `boot -v' > would be helpful. FreeBSD is clearly not happy with its attempts to > write on this drive, there must be something "special" about it! > > Jordan I have a SCSI Quantum Fireball (and a Quantum Lightning) no problems installing FreeBSD on either drive. I suspect that Quantum might not be very good at IDE since I only hear about their SCSI drives. My opinion is if you want a good IDE drive, get a Western Digital, if you want a good SCSI drive, get a Quantum. Just my two cents... ---Jake