From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 27 21:58:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web04.bigbiz.com (web04.bigbiz.com [209.133.75.128]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1379C14DC2 for ; Mon, 27 Sep 1999 21:58:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from don@whtech.com) Received: from gateway.whtech.com ([209.172.105.110]) by web04.bigbiz.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA32046 for ; Mon, 27 Sep 1999 21:58:29 -0700 Received: from digerati (digerati.whtech.com [10.1.0.2]) by gateway.whtech.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id WAA10962 for ; Mon, 27 Sep 1999 22:25:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from don@whtech.com) From: "Don O'Neil" To: Subject: Mystery w/ UDMA/66 WD/IBM Drives Solved Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 22:01:14 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG For those who care.... I finally figured out how to make the IBM and subsequently the WD 18 GB UDMA Drive boot with Free BSD (They are the same drive, WD OEM's them to IBM).... Originally I couldn't even get the drive to boot dos.. I was doing the old standby of fdisk/format... that won't work. After (just becuase I was trying everythin) running their diagnostic tool and formatting the drive/partitioning it with their disk manager, I got it to boot into DOS... so I tried re-partitioning it "dangerously dedicated" with free bsd, and viola! It worked! I'm amazed that any drive company could ship a drive that won't install a standard OS like DOS without some special tool being run. Evidently their DM does something to the boot sector to make it boot correctly. Weird. When I tried the standard methods (before their tool) I would just get a message that the disk was not readable, there was no kernel or no boot loader. Maybe this should be added to the FAQ or some other docs so that when other people buy these new UDMA/66 Drives from IBM or Western Digital they don't spend 5 days trying to figure it out... Neither WD's or IBM's tech support helped at all, they didn't know what the f*** they were doing. Don To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message