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From: "Jeff Lush" <jeff@powersurfr.com>
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Subject: RE: Hard disk problem
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 18:02:17 -0700
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Wow. In the interest of pursuing this to the death, could this error be
attributed to the partitioning of the drive?

Here's what I mean:

The BIOS defines the drive as:
Cylinders:779 Heads: 128 Sectors: 63 Total Sectors: 6281856 Mode: LBA

FreeBSD defines the drive as (when set to dangerously dedicated?):
Cylinders: 391 Heads: 255 Sectors: 63 Total Sectors: 6281415

Could my problem be related to the disk geometry incorrectly set?


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Watson, chris [mailto:cwatson@WorldMediaCo.net]
> Sent: March 25, 1999 11:55 AM
> To: 'Jeff Lush'
> Subject: RE: Hard disk problem
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Jeff Lush
> Sent: Thursday, March 25, 1999 11:42 AM
> To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Hard disk problem
>
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>
> wd0s1e:wdstart:time out waiting to give command writing fsbn7776 of
> 7776-7787 (wd0s1e bn608640; cn75tn60sn60)(status 1<err>error2<tr000>)
>
> My questions are, what is this error? does this error relate to the "tink"
> noise I hear? Does this mean a hard disk is about to fail or could it be
> that FreeBSD is not picking up the BIOS info on the hard disk?
>
> Kiss the drive goodbye :-)
> It's on its way to a slow painfull death.
>
> Chris
>



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