From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 17 23:27:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from chmls16.mediaone.net (chmls16.mediaone.net [24.147.1.151]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 929BD37B418 for ; Sat, 17 Nov 2001 23:27:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from sickness (h0000c0f0bdd0.ne.mediaone.net [24.128.40.215]) by chmls16.mediaone.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id fAI7RZT28610 for ; Sun, 18 Nov 2001 02:27:35 -0500 (EST) From: "David Loszewski" To: Subject: RE: harddrive error Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2001 02:26:39 -0500 Message-ID: <001801c17002$5ce82dd0$3000a8c0@sickness> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627 In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20011117171619.00bab6a0@pop-server.nyc.rr.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG K, well, I've tried switching the cables, I've tried reinstalling and I'm still getting the same problem; I'm finding it hard to believe that this disk is bad considering that when I had Linux installed on it, it was working fine without any read errors. Also since I'm on an extremely low budget I'm not exactly looking forward to going out and buying a new harddrive. Anyone have any ideas? Anything would be usefull. I also did a fsck on it and it didn't come up with any errors that I could see. Don't know if that helps. Dave -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG] On Behalf Of Scott Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2001 5:20 PM To: David Loszewski; 'Nils Holland'; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: harddrive error At 17:03 2001/11/17 -0500, David Loszewski wrote: >Yea, I'm just using a normal 33/66 cable, I'd assume that it's 80 pin >since it's just a normal IDE cable. This harddrive did work on one of >my other machines so I'll try the new cable when I get home. Is FreeBSD >really sensitive when it comes to what cables you use??d It seems to be (in my experience--which is quite limited.) I recently got a fairly low-end box---the cable that came with it not only caused errors on FreeBSD but on Linux as well. The thing worked fine once it booted, but I'd get those errors on startup. MS on the other hand, didn't indicate any errors (though of course, what happens on boot with MS is not as easy to determine, and, having already found the swap cable solution, I wasn't interested enough to really investigate). As I haven't tried to do any benchmarking, I'm not sure how much of a difference in performance one will see--subjectively, haven't noticed much, but neither of the boxes have been terribly stressed yet either. :) HTH a little Scott Robbins To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message