Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 20:28:41 -0500 (CDT) From: Missouri FreeNet Administration <measl@mfn.org> To: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Resolution: k6-2/400 and 2.2x Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990411202704.489A-100000@pub2.mfn.org> In-Reply-To: <3711452D.8A81DAD8@3-cities.com>
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This was it! Once I disable S.M.A.R.T., the problem disappeared! THANKS! J.A. Terranson sysadmin@mfn.org On Sun, 11 Apr 1999, Kent Stewart wrote: :I had problems with WD drives and non-DOS mbr. I found an :incompatability between SMART and the bios. You start the power up :sequence, it counts through memory, and then it checks the hard drive :and hangs. I had to use a startup disk from Win98 to "fdisk /mbr", :left that mbr in place and my problems went away. : :Missouri FreeNet Administration wrote: :> :> On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: :> :Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 09:31:41 +0930 :> :From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> :> <snip> :> :What kind of disks and controller are you using? :> Controllers are on the motherboard (Asus P5A-B). :> :> : What chipset? :> ALi AGPset. 100mhz front end bus, Western Digital 1.6gb IDE drive, :> Standard 3.5" Mitsumi floppy, 32mb of 100mhz SDRAM, Generic 4 mb PCI video :> card, SMC800x Network Card: all known to be good. As I said, this system, :> unchanged, boots and runs NT4/SP4, RHL 5.2, etc... :> :> : Does it freeze, or does it hang? :> It hangs. CTL-ALT-DEL still reboots, numlock still functions, etc. It :> appears to read the first boot sector before dying. :> :> :Does it still occur if you go back to a 66 MHz bus speed? :> Unknown right now: I will try it later this weekend. :> :> :I suppose it's possible that there is an incompatibility with 2.2.5R, :> :just that we haven't seen it, and it's unlikely to be directly related :> :to the processor. But it would still make sense to install :> :FreeBSD-3.1, since you're not going to get much help following a real :> :bug in 2.2.5. :> I wasn't aware that 3.1 was out: last I checked, 3.0 was available, but, :> to paraphrase the FBSD warning: "3.0 [was] not ready for prime time" ;-) :> :> Is there continuing support for 2.2.8R? We are *very* pleased with the :> 2.2.x series, and are not exactly thrilled at changing over to the 3.x :> line... (Why fix something thats not only not [usually] broken, but :> usually picture perfect???) :> :> Yours, :> J.A. Terranson :> sysadmin@mfn.org :> :>-- :Kent Stewart :Richland, WA : To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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