Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 15:36:48 -0400 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" <chad@shire.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Anyone else having trouble with Samsung 160G drives? Message-ID: <409FD9D0.1000702@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <EF4BFC9F-A2B2-11D8-A785-003065A70D30@shire.net> References: <409FBA92.2030401@potentialtech.com> <EF4BFC9F-A2B2-11D8-A785-003065A70D30@shire.net>
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Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: > > On May 10, 2004, at 11:23 AM, Bill Moran wrote: > >> This is the weirdest problem I'm seen in a while. >> >> 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. >> >> As soon as the drives are installed, kernel won't boot. It freezes up >> right before >> the "ad0: ..." messages appear and won't respond to anything except >> the reset button. >> Tried primary slave, secondary slave ... threw in a Highpoint ATA card >> and tried >> every possible configuration ... no dice. This was on a relatively >> new AOpen mobo >> with a 2G processor (don't have the model # handy, but I'll get it if >> it's important) > > When you moved the drives, did you move the cables? Can the problem be > diagnosed by switching out the cables? Didn't keep _real_ close track of it, but we had 4 different cables that were moving around, and I believe we tried a few different combinations of them. Additionally, we've tried the drive in 3 different computers in our lab, and each one has successfully booted so far. (2 older machines and a fairly recent 2G ASUS board) I'm tending to lean toward BIOS weirdness. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com
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