From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 5 13:27:08 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id NAA03605 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 5 Jul 1995 13:27:08 -0700 Received: from linux4nn.iaf.nl (root@linux4nn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.34]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id NAA03594 for ; Wed, 5 Jul 1995 13:27:05 -0700 Received: from uni4nn.iaf.nl (root@uni4nn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.33]) by linux4nn.iaf.nl (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id WAA01930; Wed, 5 Jul 1995 22:24:32 +0200 Received: by uni4nn.iaf.nl with UUCP id AA20780 (5.67b/IDA-1.5); Wed, 5 Jul 1995 22:19:37 +0100 Received: by iafnl.iaf.nl with UUCP id AA29954 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4); Wed, 5 Jul 1995 20:55:44 +0200 Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.6.8/8.6.6) id TAA01274; Wed, 5 Jul 1995 19:27:23 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199507051727.TAA01274@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: Re: Stabikity/Usability of 2.0.5R To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Date: Wed, 5 Jul 1995 19:27:22 +1596657 (MET DST) Cc: davidg@root.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <9507050122.AA03337@cs.weber.edu> from "Terry Lambert" at Jul 4, 95 07:22:18 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL22] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 2172 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > because 2.0.5R simply will not install (and neither will subsequent > snapshots). > > The hardware in question is running WD 1007 ESDI controllers. The > "perfect media" jumper is off. > > The Install wants to use a translated geometry (the real geometry > is 1224/15/35) of something like xxx/15/51. What a coincidence. I already started to feel stupid. I have a 386/25 here with a WD1007 and a 1224/15/35 drive (a ~300Mb micropolis). Same problems.. I'm kinda glad it also bit you ;-) > The amusing thing is that when it scans for bad blocks (the drive > has to have bad block replacement enables in BSD), it gets an error > on every 35th scan. I would suspect something wierd with the disk, > but 1.1.5.1 sails right on. So it's clearly in the disklabel stuff. Yep, same here. I once had 1.1.5. on this system and that worked OK. Are you able to select a non-translated drive using the WD1007 BIOS? Mine doesn't. Disabling the BIOS of the WD and selecting the untranslated geometry in the system BIOS also gives me the n * 35 badblocks. > Interestingly, the "every 35th try" error on the scan seems to > indicate (to me, at least) that the drive is not being accessed > linearly; apparently the adjacency of sectors is being miscalculated > and it's skipping all over the disk. There was a complaint about > large amounts of drive noise about a month ago that was never very > well explained -- possibly it's this? I have a faint recollection that I had to tell 1.1.5. to use 34 sectors (when the drive actually has 35) before it wanted to install. Telling 2.05R to use 34 does not work. > Anyone else have a machine with a WD1007 that they installed instead > of upgraded from an existing (non-2.0.5R: working) installation? As you know by now it fails for me. I might retry 1.1.5 on it just to see. > Terry Lambert > terry@cs.weber.edu Wilko _ __________________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Wilko Bulte email: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl |/|/ / / /( (_) Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem - The Netherlands --------------------------------------------------------------------------------