Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 11:22:19 -0700 From: "brian j. peterson" <rbw@myplace.org> To: "Hartmann, O." <ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD - Linux curiosity Message-ID: <20010612112219.A49978@malkavian.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0106121953520.17963-100000@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de>; from ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de on Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 08:13:18PM %2B0200 References: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0106121953520.17963-100000@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de>
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if you simply want to erase the hard drive in order to install Linux, try one (or both) of the following utilities from IBM: http://www.storage.ibm.com/techsup/hddtech/welcome.htm#Wipe http://www.storage.ibm.com/techsup/hddtech/welcome.htm#Zap (read the documentation first, of course.) -brian On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 08:13:18PM +0200, Hartmann, O. wrote: > Dear Sirs. > > Well, this is a small story about accusing FreeBSD to 'implant' > a Linux-unreadable filesystem on a Samsung harddrive (ATA100). > > I'm the system's operator for a small set of servers running all > FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE and we are using FreeBSD as our backbone for > over 5 years now with great success and without any catastrophy, > except several minor problems, like NFS tricks, but nothing that had not > been solved withing one or two weeks for ALL FreeBSD users, so far a > problem has been revealed as a bug. > > For our scientists it is necessary to be 'popular' and use the right > operating system and therefore most of them want Linux, because they > want it due the fact all others have it also. For this reason we got > several new fast Intel based computers and two are based on a ABIT > PC133 mainbord with the HighPoint 370 ATA100/RAID controller. One machine > has been switched to Windows 2000 because the user needs Windows 2000 > on this machine, but before, I installed FreeBSD 4.3-BETA and 4.3-RC > for three times with great success and without any problem. Windows > 2000 won't install itself due several problems with the HighPoint > controller ... The second machine was the same: three times I installed > FreeBSD from the ISO image CD without any problem ... The latter machine > is to be a Linux machine now - but Linux (SuSE 7.0 and SuSE 7.1) won't > install on the system (ABIT133) and after checking the compatibility > list of SuSE's homepage we got the information that there are still > several problems with the HighPoint RAID controller. The main problem > of the Linux installation procedure was, that Linux recognized several > uneraseable partitions, marked as "BSD" partition of strange sizes > (partition / has a size of 1GB in blocks, but I installed a /-partition of > 256 MB only ...). After using a radical DOS utility to repartition the > harddisk the Linux loader told us the same and for the first time the > guy from our computing center told us that this is a problem caused by > FreeBSD - the evidence was given by the 'fdisk' from Linux showing > BSD partitions ... huh??? > > Then we chenaged the mainboard after we read the compatibility list at SuSE's > homepage. Now this system is equippted with a ASUS CUV4X-D mainboard with > only one CPU at 1GHz - I run the same board with two 800EB CPUs under > FreeBSD with a great success (but with a AMI MegaRAID Elite 1600 and a > Adpaptec 2940UW SCSI subsystem, not ATA). > The same guy from our computing center came back to reinstall Linux again - > with no success, because Linux still reports massiv problems in reading > or being unable to read the partition table of the disk. It seems there > are still FreeBSD or any BSD typed partition remains. > Well, I'm not a guru but it seems to me that a 'BSD' type partition is > common such a way, that each unrecognized or scrambled partition is > recognized as BSD type ... and Linux seems to have massive problems. > FreeBSD could be installed without problems - but my chief-professor > wants Linux, so FreeBSD is out of qualifying ... > > Well, I'm a little bit confused about that what happened, but by intuition, > it seems to be a Linux problem. Does anyone ever heard about partition > tables created by FreeBSD, caused another system to hang or crash while > trying to format, repartition or low-level format the harddrive? Linux > isn't able to repartition the harddrive! And the controller on the ASUS > CUV4X-D is a VIA chip, not a HighPoint RAID ... > > Any ideas? If no, please have an amusement with this ... > > -- > MfG > O. Hartmann > > ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > IT-Administration des Institut fuer Physik der Atmosphaere (IPA) > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz > Becherweg 21 > 55099 Mainz > > Tel: +496131/3924662 (Maschinensaal) > Tel: +496131/3924144 > FAX: +496131/3923532 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- --===-----=======-----------=============-----------------=================== | rbw aka bjp | god's final message to his creation: | | rbw@myplace.org | we apologize for the inconvenience. | ===================-----------------=============-----------=======-----===-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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