Date: Sat, 8 Mar 1997 17:58:53 -0800 (PST) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb> To: gilham@csl.sri.com (Fred Gilham) Cc: emulation Subject: Re: FreeBSD slaughtering disks (was Re: FreeBSD) Message-ID: <199703090158.RAA18340@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <199703082114.NAA00463@japonica.csl.sri.com> from "Fred Gilham" at Mar 8, 97 01:14:36 pm
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Fred Gilham wrote: > Karl Wagner writes: > ---------------------------------------- > There is NO software in existance that can damage phisically any hard > disk. Only a monitor might be blown for changing the sync rate, > etc. But not a hard disk or a motherboard. > ---------------------------------------- > > Well, not really contradicting this but it seems that there are > certain hard drives that you can make unusable with FreeBSD. In > particular, I have a bunch of Fujitsu 500 meg SCSI drives that are > sitting in a pile, the victims of FreeBSD installations. I'm not sure > exactly what FreeBSD did to them, but they worked before and didn't > after trying to install FreeBSD. I suspect some of the software the > drive uses to operate is actually on the drive itself and got wiped > out, but I'm not sure about this. (The model of the drive is M1603SAU > in case anyone is curious or has had other experiences with this drive > and FreeBSD). i have 2 fujitsu M1606SAU drives that i use with FreeBSD. these drives are 1GB rather than 500MB. according the fujitsu documentation that i have the 1603 and hte 1606 are identical but for the number of heads (3 and 6 respectively). do you still have any of these that work? can you tell me the firmware revision? how about the jumper settings? its not that i dont believe you, but rather i am very surprised and wonder what "land mine" i side-stepped. i have both: <FUJITSU M1606S-512 6220> <FUJITSU M1606S-512 6234> two differeent firmware revisions. jmb
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