From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 5 19:52:39 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA26767 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 5 Mar 1996 19:52:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from mramirez.sy.yale.edu (mramirez.sy.yale.edu [130.132.57.207]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA26744 for ; Tue, 5 Mar 1996 19:52:29 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mrami@localhost) by mramirez.sy.yale.edu (8.6.12/8.6.9) id WAA09293; Tue, 5 Mar 1996 22:52:39 -0500 Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 22:52:38 -0500 (EST) From: Marc Ramirez Reply-To: mrami@minerva.cis.yale.edu To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Dell Dimension Problem -> Quantum Fireball Problem Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk I found out the following: on-board IDE known-working IDE +------------------------------------- Fireball | no work no work Old 80MB sucker | work work Therefore, I conclude that the Quantum FIREBALL 1080AT does not work with FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE. Strange... Anybody know about this? Is anyone else using a FIREBALL 1080AT? For those that have forgotten, the problem was corrupted reads (perhas writes, too? I don't know...) from the drive with any moderate amount of activity. Marc. -- Excerpt from conversation between customer support person and customer working for a well-known military-affiliated research lab: "You're not our only customer, you know." "But we're one of the few with tactical nuclear weapons."