From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 10 12:24:10 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE35516A4CE for ; Mon, 10 May 2004 12:24:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from internet.potentialtech.com (h-66-167-251-6.phlapafg.covad.net [66.167.251.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7103C43D55 for ; Mon, 10 May 2004 12:24:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com (pa-plum1c-102.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.179.102]) by internet.potentialtech.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74C2C69A71; Mon, 10 May 2004 15:24:09 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <409FD6D6.9040704@potentialtech.com> Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 15:24:06 -0400 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040506 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Simon Barner References: <409FBA92.2030401@potentialtech.com> <20040510182249.GC23244@zi025.glhnet.mhn.de> In-Reply-To: <20040510182249.GC23244@zi025.glhnet.mhn.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Anyone else having trouble with Samsung 160G drives? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 19:24:11 -0000 Simon Barner wrote: > Bill Moran wrote: > >>Client bought a pair of 160G Samsung SP1604N ATA drives. I'm supposed >>to install them in an existing FreeBSD 4.9 system for additional >>storage space. > > [ drives don't work in various systems except for one ] > > I once had a similar problem with a 120 GB Maxtor drive. My solution was > not to specify the drive in the BIOS, and to pull all of its > configuration. Using a smaller (10 GB) drive as a boot device, FreeBSD > (4.9 and 5.2.1) magically detects the drive. Wow ... I haven't seem much of this kind of problem until now, I must have been very lucky! This sounds like a good suggestion, except it was the first thing we tried. The orignal plan was to add the two drives to an existing FreeBSD system to add storage space to it. So the first configuration we tried was to install the drives as slaves on an already-working FreeBSD 4.9 system. As soon as we tried to boot with the new drive plugged-in, the system froze up (as described in detail in the email). Thanks for the input. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com