From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jun 16 11:05:02 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA02551 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 16 Jun 1996 11:05:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jmb@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA02530; Sun, 16 Jun 1996 11:05:00 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" Message-Id: <199606161805.LAA02530@freefall.freebsd.org> Subject: Re: IBM HD's To: jehamby@lightside.com (Jake Hamby) Date: Sun, 16 Jun 1996 11:04:59 -0700 (PDT) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, yves@CC.McGill.CA, hackers@FreeBSD.org, yves@maelstrom.CC.McGill.CA In-Reply-To: from "Jake Hamby" at Jun 16, 96 10:45:46 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 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): , 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): , 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 rev 2 on pci0:0 chip1 rev 2 on pci0:7 vga0 rev 0 int a irq 11 on pci0:15 jmb -- Jonathan M. Bresler FreeBSD Postmaster jmb@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD--4.4BSD Unix for PC clones, source included. http://www.freebsd.org/ PGP 2.6.2 Fingerprint: 31 57 41 56 06 C1 40 13 C5 1C E3 E5 DC 62 0E FB