From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 12 23:33:49 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA24003 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 12 Feb 1997 23:33:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA23997 for ; Wed, 12 Feb 1997 23:33:45 -0800 (PST) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.2/8.7.3) id SAA18797 for hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 18:03:43 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199702130733.SAA18797@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Big disks To: hackers@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 18:03:42 +1030 (CST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk ... just to follow on my previous posting; having killed myself in the transfinite loop of trying to get DOS onto the disk so that I could install the Jaz software to unlock the &*$&^$&6 Jaz disk and so forth, I put the machine aside and moved to its twin. And lo and behold it works perfectly, as expected. So the former has either a screwed IDE cable, disk or motherboard, and FreeBSD works flawlessly (modulo the size calculation bug) with the Maxtor 5GB disk. Just FYI. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[