Date: Thu, 6 Jul 1995 13:46:16 -0400 (EDT) From: jan@bagend.atl.ga.us (Jan Isley) To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Cc: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl, davidg@Root.COM, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Stabikity/Usability of 2.0.5R Message-ID: <m0sTv0C-0004pHC@bagend.atl.ga.us> In-Reply-To: <9507052305.AA06876@cs.weber.edu> from "Terry Lambert" at Jul 5, 95 05:05:16 pm
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Terry Lambert wrote: > > What a coincidence. [ deletia ] Same problems. I recall having the same problem here recently with a wd 1007 and a micropolis 1558. About the same time summer hit with a vengance and I retired the monsters until the weather cools... I do not have A/C here in Hotlanta and they were starting to shutdown from the heat. :( > Probably also an AT&T/NCR machine? doityourself ASUS PVI-486AP4, award bios autodects it correctly. > There is a jumper for "perfect media"... basically, self-replacement > of bad sectors. This is a geometry translation of a sort, but since > it's BIOS only, I don't have it on. I have no idea where the controller manual is ... don't know about that jumper. If you want me to try anything, tell me what. Peter da Silva asks: :> I have one question for these people installing FreeBSD on ESDI... how :> is the drive formatted? Did you use the WD BIOS or something like :> DiskManager? I used the onboard WD bios long ago, then reformatted with the award bios most recently... never diskmanager or the like. -- Jan Isley <jan@bagend.atl.ga.us> If you couldn't find any weirdness, maybe we'll just have to make some! -- Hobbes
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