Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 09:15:35 +1000 From: Andrew Perry <andrew@shoal.net.au> To: questions freebsd <questions@freebsd.org>, Michael Lay <n5ptn@bga.com> Subject: Re: More on IDE Problem Message-ID: <32DD6517.2507@shoal.net.au> References: <2.2.16.19970114201927.380f672a@bga.com>
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I installed no worries on an IDE HDD. Are you sure your problem is with the IDE? andrew perry andrew@shoal.net.au Michael Lay wrote: > > Well, I have tried to install on two different 400Mg HD's now with no luck. > One was a Conner and the other was a Western Digital. I traded out the IDE > CD-ROM for a SCSI CD-ROM. It is now a tiny bit more consistent about where > it fails. It completes the NEWFS and starts to unpack data. It then fails > saying it wrote -1 bytes. It asks if I want to try again. Even if I say yes, > it traps a fatal error and starts to re-boot the system. Could someone who has > actually installed this on a system with IDE HD's let me in on the secret??!! > > Michael Lay > N5PTN > Pflugerville, Texas >
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