From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 4 9:22:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc2.bc.home.com (ha1.rdc2.bc.wave.home.com [24.2.10.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7541D37B806 for ; Sun, 4 Jun 2000 09:22:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dr@dursec.com) Received: from kyxbot.zorg ([24.113.134.64]) by mail.rdc2.bc.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.17 201-229-119) with SMTP id <20000604162239.XCFG28518.mail.rdc2.bc.home.com@kyxbot.zorg>; Sun, 4 Jun 2000 09:22:39 -0700 From: Dragos Ruiu Organization: kyx.net To: Greg Lehey Subject: Re: More 40gig drive problems Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2000 09:19:09 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <00060321035701.00370@kyxbot.zorg> <20000604133836.C85628@wantadilla.lemis.com> <00060321203402.00370@kyxbot.zorg> In-Reply-To: <00060321203402.00370@kyxbot.zorg> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00060409211603.00370@kyxbot.zorg> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 03 Jun 2000, Dragos Ruiu wrote: > On Sat, 03 Jun 2000, Greg Lehey wrote: > > On Saturday, 3 June 2000 at 21:00:36 -0700, Dragos Ruiu wrote: > > > Asus P2-99 - celeron 433 > > > Maxtor 40Gb drive with the "cylinder limit jumper in" to get past BIOS lockup. > > > FreeBSD 4.0 Install CD on ATAPI CDROM > > > > > > Gets as far as probing devices... and it definitely may take some > > > time as the on-screen message warns - potentially infinite it seems. > > > > Are you saying the system locks up? If so, it would help to state so > > explicitly. > > > It looks like a lock up.... but it's a big drive so I didn't want to > jump to assumptions. Thanks for the assistance.... but it looks like faulty HW is the issue. Another 40Gig drive of similar type (Maxtor7200RPM instead of 5400RPM but that shouldn't matter) works fine, so I'm assuming it's faulty DOA HW with that drive now. Thanks, --dr -- dursec.com ltd. / kyx.net - we're from the future http://www.dursec.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message