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Date:      Tue, 11 Jun 1996 08:30:58 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "matthew c. mead" <mmead@Glock.COM>
To:        mrm@MARMOT.Mole.ORG (M.R.Murphy)
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ST43400N
Message-ID:  <199606111230.IAA03875@Glock.COM>
In-Reply-To: <199606111129.EAA27514@meerkat.mole.org> from "M.R.Murphy" at Jun 11, 96 04:29:45 am

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M.R.Murphy writes:

> >     Anyone used one of these (Seagate ST43400N)?  I got one
> > for $379 ($.13/M) recently, and just tried to get it going (after
> > spending an hour modifying my case to take a full height drive).
> > I only tried with FreeBSD 2.1.0R and DOS 6.22.  Under FreeBSD, it
> > probes just fine, 2777M.  But when I try to read from it or write
> > to it, the system hangs, spitting out "ccb timeout" and some
> > value that changes each time the error is printed.  Under DOS
> > 6.22 when I try "format c:" I get "Invalid device parameters from
> > device driver."  Anyone have any ideas?  I'm sorta up a creek
> > here... :(  Thanks in advance!

> You want to share what you've tried for the /etc/disktab entry for the
> device?

	The drive hangs before a "fdisk sd1" completes, so I
haven't even gotten as far as writing a disktab for it, since I
can't get the probed geometry values for it.



-matt

-- 
Matthew C. Mead

mmead@goof.com
http://www.goof.com/~mmead/



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