Date: Sun, 16 Jun 1996 11:04:59 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb> To: jehamby@lightside.com (Jake Hamby) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, yves@CC.McGill.CA, hackers@FreeBSD.org, yves@maelstrom.CC.McGill.CA Subject: Re: IBM HD's Message-ID: <199606161805.LAA02530@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.AUX.3.91.960616104407.20662A-100000@covina.lightside.com> from "Jake Hamby" at Jun 16, 96 10:45:46 am
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Jake Hamby wrote:
>
> 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...
no problems here with an IDE Quantum Fireball
the box is a Dell Dimension XPSP90c using the motherboard IDE
controller.
(this is the first time that i have looked at the disklabel :) EDSI??
what da ....)
kryten: {1} disklabel wd0
# /dev/rwd0c:
type: ESDI
disk: wd0s2
label:
flags:
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 63
tracks/cylinder: 64
sectors/cylinder: 4032
cylinders: 378
sectors/unit: 1524096
rpm: 3600
interleave: 1
trackskew: 0
cylinderskew: 0
headswitch: 0 # milliseconds
track-to-track seek: 0 # milliseconds
drivedata: 0
dmesg:
FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE #0: Fri May 10 11:40:00 EDT 1996
root@:/usr/src/sys/compile/KRYTEN
CPU: 90-MHz Pentium 735\\90 (Pentium-class CPU)
Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x525 Stepping=5
Features=0x1bf<FPU,VME,PSE,MCE,CX8,APIC>
real memory = 25165824 (24576K bytes)
avail memory = 23097344 (22556K bytes)
Probing for devices on the ISA bus:
sc0 at 0x60-0x6f irq 1 on motherboard
sc0: VGA color <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x0>
ed0 at 0x300-0x31f irq 10 maddr 0xcc000 msize 16384 on isa
ed0: address 00:00:c0:17:54:70, type WD8013EPC (16 bit)
lpt0 at 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa
lpt0: Interrupt-driven port
lp0: TCP/IP capable interface
psm0 at 0x60-0x63 irq 12 on motherboard
sio0 at 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 on isa
sio0: type 16550A
sio1 at 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa
sio1: type 16550A
wdc0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14 flags 0xff00ff on isa
wdc0: unit 0 (wd0): <QUANTUM FIREBALL1080A>, multi-block-8
wd0: 1039MB (2128896 sectors), 2112 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S
wdc1 at 0x170-0x177 irq 15 on isa
wdc1: unit 0 (atapi): <NEC CD-ROM DRIVE:273/4.21>, removable, io
rdy
atapi1.0: no cmd drq
fdc0 at 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa
fdc0: NEC 72065B
fd0: 1.44MB 3.5in
npx0 on motherboard
npx0: INT 16 interface
Probing for devices on the PCI bus:
chip0 <Intel 82437 (Triton)> rev 2 on pci0:0
chip1 <Intel 82371 (Triton)> rev 2 on pci0:7
vga0 <VGA-compatible display device> rev 0 int a irq 11 on pci0:15
jmb
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