From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 9 21:26:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f197.law8.hotmail.com [216.33.241.197]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9398E37B479 for ; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 21:26:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 21:26:57 -0800 Received: from 129.7.104.231 by lw8fd.law8.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Fri, 10 Nov 2000 05:26:57 GMT X-Originating-IP: [129.7.104.231] From: "xu qiang" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: a strange problem about using 2 HD in one PC Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 05:26:57 GMT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 10 Nov 2000 05:26:57.0367 (UTC) FILETIME=[D7FF6670:01C04AD6] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dear Sir/Madam: I try to add another HD to my PC. I use Dell Optiplex GMT+ 5133, the two HDs are Western Digital Caviar 2850. I met some strange problem. When I use one as master one as slave, I can see both of them by "dmesg". There are ad0 and ad1. But when I try to use /stand/sysinstall ---> configure ---> fdisk there always some block reading error, and only can see ad0. In fact I have ever set up a FreeBSD on each HD, but the file system is full, I need more space so I need 2 HD. Also if I use only each one of the 2 HDs, I can boot to FreeBSD normally. This means the 2 HDs are OK. So I don't know why? Could some one give me some adive? Oh, by the way I can work well on other PC by using one Western Digital Caviar 2850 HD & one Seagat HD. Does this mean two Western Digital Caviar 2850 cannot work well together? Thanks! Xu,Qiang _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message