Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 15:47:16 -0700 From: Jason Liao <jasonl@xinetron.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Failed to install on WD WDC33100H HDD Message-ID: <341DBAF4.B55AAB13@xinetron.com> References: <34195761.2FEBB195@xinetron.com>
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Greetings, I tried the HDD again on an old 486 computer. It failed again. There is no LBA, no 32-bit access, no block access, no PIO mode 4 support on the 486 computer. The result is the same as on Pentium and Pentium PRO. On a Pentium system, DOS 6.22 can fdisk it without any problem. I didn't try DOS on the 486. I really believe that there are something special in the WDC33100H that the BIOS can support while FreeBSD 2.2.x can not. ---------------------------------------------------------- Jason Liao wrote: > Greetings, > > I tried to install FreeBSD 2.2.1 and 2.2.2 to a Western Digital > WDC33100H IDE HDD (3.1G). The kernel booted off the floppy and > detected > the correct model and size of the HDD. However, it hung after > displaying `/stand/sysinstall running as init on vty0'. Pressing > Alt+F3 > made the computer scream and only a hard reset could stop it. > Installing to other HDDs is OK. > > Then I hooked the WDC33100H as a slave disk to an existing FreeBSD > 2.2.1 > system. When I tried to fdisk, fdisk reported wrong geometry and the > kernel gave out lots of error messages: > wd1s1c: hard error reading fsbn 1wd1: status 59<rdy, seekdone, drq, > err> > error 10<no_id> > > I connected the HDD back to a new system as the only HDD and booted > with > a kernel from a floppy diskette. I issued the following command: > dd if=/dev/rwd0c of=/dev/null bs=1b count=512 > I got the error message: > wd0s1c: wdstart: timeout waiting to give command reading fsbn 1wd0: > status 0 error 0 > wd0s1c: wdstart: timeout waiting to give command reading fsbn 1wd0: > status 0 error 1 <no_dam> > The error messages repeated and the system hung. > > Any hints? Your help is appreciated. > > P.S. I tried this HDD on different computers ( Pentium and Pentium > PRO), the same result. The HDD is OK in DOS environment. I heard of > someone else encountered this problem on WD HDDs about 1 or 2 months > ago. > -- > --------------------- > Jason Liao > <jasonl@xinetron.com> > --------------------- -- --------------------- Jason Liao <jasonl@xinetron.com> ---------------------
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