From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jan 23 14:35:50 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from cobble.capnet.state.tx.us (cobble.capnet.state.tx.us [141.198.179.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CACC237B402 for ; Wed, 23 Jan 2002 14:35:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (fbsdstable@localhost) by cobble.capnet.state.tx.us (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g0NManR79007 for ; Wed, 23 Jan 2002 16:36:49 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from fbsdstable@cobble.capnet.state.tx.us) Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 16:36:49 -0600 (CST) From: FreeBSD Stable To: Subject: Possibly another RC2 ATA problem. Message-ID: <20020123131948.G78747-100000@cobble.capnet.state.tx.us> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I tried to load RC2 from the ISO image on a dual-athalon board with an IBM Deskstar 60GB. This was previously running a functioning Red Hat. I told partition to take the whole drive, gave it some labels to use, and told it to take ALL distributions. When I commited, I quickly got a write error from the drive. (The boot block was NOT protected in the BIOS.) Now the drive is hosed. The BIOS sees it, the probe sees it (with a different geometry), but when I get to Custom/Partition there are no disks found. The BIOS reports: 29437/16/255 The probe reports: 119150/16/63 (as ad0) The debug screen shows: DEBUG: Unable to open disk ad0 I have since tried looking at it from the 4.4-R install CD, but it looks the same from there. I cannot talk to the drive from DOS, either. I would normally think there is just something wrong with the drive, but with the other reported ATA problems, and the switch to 48 bits, I thought I should mention this. The motherboard is: Tyan Thunder K7, V2.07a BIOS. The drive reports itself as: IC35L060AVER07-0. There is no way to set the BIOS to the parameters show above. It autos to LBA mode. If anyone knows how I might talk to the drive, please let me know. stu fbsdstable@capnet.state.tx.us To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message