From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 25 21:25:56 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A81316A4CE for ; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 21:25:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: from coe.ufrj.br (roma.coe.ufrj.br [146.164.53.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3BAD43D3F for ; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 21:25:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jonny@jonny.eng.br) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by coe.ufrj.br (Postfix) with ESMTP id B443117018 for ; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 18:25:54 -0300 (BRT) Received: from coe.ufrj.br ([146.164.53.65]) by localhost (roma.coe.ufrj.br [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 33861-10 for ; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 18:25:50 -0300 (BRT) Received: from [10.0.8.17] (nat.int.gov.br [200.20.196.226]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by coe.ufrj.br (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7CFA17016 for ; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 18:25:50 -0300 (BRT) Message-ID: <426D6087.7080908@jonny.eng.br> Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 18:26:31 -0300 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jo=E3o_Carlos_Mendes_Lu=EDs?= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0+ (Windows/20050315) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: hackers@freebsd.org X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.2.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at coe.ufrj.br Subject: Trouble with 250G SATA drive? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 21:25:56 -0000 Hi all, I've just bought a Seagate 250G SATA drive to run in a shared desktop at home. It should have 3 boot partitions: 16M FreeBSD 5, 16M linux, 32M NTFS for Windows XP. The remaining wil be formatted with FAT32 to be used as a common data for the 3 operating systems. Well, everything seemed to be fine. I copied the FreeBSD partition from the previous installed disk with dump(8), and installed XP from CDs. But suddenly, the data and NTFS partitions began to disappear. I don't know exactly what were the steps used to crash the disk, but it happened at least 3 times, after 3 full windows installs (which are not quick, for my sadness). In the last one I could almost detect it. I finished the initial windows instalation, and booted into FreeBSD to make sure the NTFS and FAT partitions were available. They seemed to be. Then I reboot into windows, and it crashed, with a missing HAL.DLL. Boot again into FreeBSD, and the NTFS partition still seemed ok. But I gone into the \WINDOWS\system32, and did an ls. The kernel pushed some errors with "bad magic" or something like that, and the file system locked. Also, the boot information for the first FAT32 partition has been completely destroyed, leaving it unreadable. The mainboard is an ASUS K8V, with 1G RAM. I'm running the 32 bit version of FreeBSD, although it is an AMD64 machine. The 250G SATA disk is on the promise RAID, and I have another PATA 120G on the promise RAID, and a 40G PATA on standard IDE. I already had a problem with a previous ASUS board in which the promise raid could not deal with disks bigger than 120G. The symptons were very similar. Could this be the problem? Does somebody know if FreeBSD or mount_ntfs has any kind of disk size limitation in this hardware? Oh, I did remember now that I was using mount_ntfs -o noatime, if that matters. Thanks for any help, Jonny PS: Now it has been fully reformatted with no NTFS, using FAT32 instead. But I'm afraid of getting into FreeBSD again in this machine. Please help! :-(