From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 11 19: 4: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from revolution.3-cities.com (revolution.3-cities.com [204.203.224.155]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A36D11548B for ; Sun, 11 Apr 1999 19:04:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@3-cities.com) Received: from 3-cities.com (kenn1204.bossig.com [208.26.241.204]) by revolution.3-cities.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA28485; Sun, 11 Apr 1999 19:01:38 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <37115402.CBA31DC5@3-cities.com> Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 19:01:38 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Organization: BOSSig X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Missouri FreeNet Administration Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Resolution: k6-2/400 and 2.2x References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I don't know what it is but the FreeBSD mbr sure trashes some of the new systems. You were lucky. I couldn't turn off SMART. Kent Missouri FreeNet Administration wrote: > > 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 > :> > :> :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 > : -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message