From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 6 13:11:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA26942 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 6 Apr 1998 13:11:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA26835 for ; Mon, 6 Apr 1998 13:11:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA19013; Mon, 6 Apr 1998 13:11:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1998 13:11:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Jan Koum cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "Read error" part II In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 5 Apr 1998, Jan Koum wrote: > Same problem, different machine. I am installing 2.2.6-RELEASE on > Seagate Barracuda 34371W SCSI disk with 2940UW Adaptec card. All disk is > going to the FreeBSD ("dangerous dedicated" mode). Every time after > install I get "Read Error". I tried to use different geometries and > even splitting the drive into different BSD partitions. No luck. What BIOS? Award BIOSes are known to get pushy about the disklabel. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message