Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1998 09:27:32 +1100 (EST) From: Rowan Crowe <rowan@sensation.net.au> To: "Jason J. Horton" <jason@intercom.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IBM 8.4gig HDD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9812020918320.2045-100000@velvet.sensation.net.au> In-Reply-To: <36646095.6BB616AB@intercom.com>
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On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, Jason J. Horton wrote: > Has anyone been able to get an IBM DHEA-38451 8.4gig HDD > to work with FreeBSD? I have tried 2.2.7-RELEASE, 2.2.8-RELEASE > and 3.0-RELEASE. On 2.2.X systems, it gets to the sysinstall > 'Probing devices, please wait (this can take awhile)...' screen and > hangs, > 3.0 won't even get through the device probe. The drive works fine > with BSDI, but not FreeBSD I am running one of these with no problems on one of my boxes: Oct 4 21:59:41 satin /kernel: wdc0: unit 0 (wd0): <IBM-DHEA-38451> Oct 4 21:59:41 satin /kernel: wd0: 8063MB (16514064 sectors), 16383 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S The only problem I've had is with the BIOS, it spits the dummy and locks up when trying to boot off such a large drive. The simple fix was to configure it as an arbitrary (smaller) size such as 100Mb, enough to allow the BIOS to load up the MBR. After that, FreeBSD takes over and ignores the BIOS settings and functionality. Note that this drive is wholly dedicated to FreeBSD, so you can't do this trick if you're running multiple operating systems off the same drive. I am not sure whether your problem is related (since it works with BSDI), but it might be worth a try. FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE. Cheers. -- Rowan Crowe Sensation Internet Services, Melbourne Aust fidonet: 3:635/728 +61-3-9388-9260 http://www.rowan.sensation.net.au/ http://www.sensation.net.au/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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