Date: Tue, 28 Feb 1995 06:49:15 -0600 (CST) From: Jim Bryant <jbryant@server.iadfw.net> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: WD and Seagate IDE drives, revisited. Message-ID: <199502281249.GAA07306@server.iadfw.net>
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I believe that last week I posted a message after seeing a WD Caviar
drive in the problem hardware list.
The problem I was having was that I had just bought a new gigger, and was
trying to get it running. The new drive was a Western Digital ACS
[Caviar] 31000, and was trying to get it running on my Packard Bell 486
with the original Seagate ST 3550A as the master drive. That wouldn't
get the system past BIOS POST, and would leave a constant seek light.
The other way around, WD as master, would work, but the cmos setup would
make the seagate just not accessable.
Calling both manufacturers gave the same answer, not our problem, put the
WD as master.
Pissed off that I had just bought a new gigger that would not co-exist
with my 450, I noticed the bug report somewhere in the FreeBSD dist, and
it sounded similar, and I decided to add another pair to the list, thus
my message here last week.
The next day on a wildcard call, I tried Packard Bell. They told me to
put the Seagate as master, and said they would send me a new bios, and
said it was Western Digital's fault.
I waited, I got the bios, popped the case, popped the chip, put in the
new, and plugged in the drives.
It works. WD as master, seagate as slave.
In summary: I jumped the gun. The problem may have been caused by, and
was certainly fixed by Packard Bell. [BIOS Reference ID = 25]
I ask that my previous problem report on the two drives to be qualified
to say "on Packard Bell computers with a BIOS Reference ID of less than
25, Packard Bell will replace the BIOS at no charge".
Jim
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