From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 7 20:56:28 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E9B516A4BF for ; Sun, 7 Sep 2003 20:56:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp2.knology.net (smtp2.knology.net [24.214.63.14]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 885C243FE3 for ; Sun, 7 Sep 2003 20:56:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dkelly@HiWAAY.net) Received: (qmail 913 invoked from network); 8 Sep 2003 03:56:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO user-24-214-34-52.knology.net) (24.214.34.52) by smtp2.knology.net with SMTP; 8 Sep 2003 03:56:23 -0000 From: David Kelly To: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2003 22:56:22 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: <20030908031618.13634.qmail@web21109.mail.yahoo.com> <200309072229.17593.algould@datawok.com> In-Reply-To: <200309072229.17593.algould@datawok.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200309072256.22925.dkelly@HiWAAY.net> Subject: Re: IBM 120 G IDE -- problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2003 03:56:28 -0000 On Sunday 07 September 2003 10:29 pm, Andrew L. Gould wrote: > On Sunday 07 September 2003 10:16 pm, Mark Terribile wrote: > > > > A drive problem seems unlikely; this was a new disk > > sealed in silver mylar and I expect these drives > > to be rock-solid. (Should I doubt this?) > > Yes, you should doubt this. I've had new IBM and a Western Digital > drives die on me this year. If you can, test the drive in a > different computer and/or operating system. A HD, like any other device, is more likely to fail when its very new than at any other time. > For what it's worth, I have 120GB (Maxtor) hard drives in computers > running FreeBSD 4.8 and 5.1. FWIW the built-in Promise controller on my Asus A7V works well in 5.1-R with IBM/Hitachi 120G HD: atapci1: port 0x7800-0x783f,0x8000-0x8003,0x8400-0x8407,0x8800-0x8803,0x9000-0x9007 mem 0xdd800000-0xdd81ffff irq 11 at device 17.0 on pci0 ata2: at 0x9000 on atapci1 ata3: at 0x8400 on atapci1 ad6: 117800MB [239340/16/63] at ata3-master UDMA100 -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.