From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jun 11 05:31:18 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id FAA06563 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 11 Jun 1996 05:31:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Glock.COM (root@glock.com [198.82.228.165]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id FAA06552 for ; Tue, 11 Jun 1996 05:31:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mmead@localhost) by Glock.COM (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA03875; Tue, 11 Jun 1996 08:30:58 -0400 (EDT) From: "matthew c. mead" Message-Id: <199606111230.IAA03875@Glock.COM> Subject: Re: ST43400N To: mrm@MARMOT.Mole.ORG (M.R.Murphy) Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 08:30:58 -0400 (EDT) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199606111129.EAA27514@meerkat.mole.org> from "M.R.Murphy" at Jun 11, 96 04:29:45 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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/