From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jan 24 13:45:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from server1.wojo.com (server1.wojo.com [216.42.139.184]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F68D37B41E for ; Thu, 24 Jan 2002 13:45:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from ishadow (pc3-oxfo3-0-cust229.oxf.cable.ntl.com [213.107.68.229]) by server1.wojo.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7F183B4A for ; Thu, 24 Jan 2002 16:45:28 -0500 (EST) Reply-To: From: "Robin Breathe" To: Subject: RE: Possibly another RC2 ATA problem. Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 21:45:29 -0000 Message-ID: <000001c1a520$719018d0$026ca8c0@ishadow> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.3416 Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 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 Hi, I'd recommend updating your BIOS. V2.09 stable is now out for the TK7, and runs great on my system. Find it at http://www.tyan.com/support/html/b_th_k7.html. Certainly worth a try, as the TK7s have had numerous problems through their short lives ;) To fix your disk you ought to be able to use the IBM Drive Fitness tool to low level format (need windows to make the floppy of course). http://www.storage.ibm.com/hdd/support/download.htm. Hope this helps Robin Breathe Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 16:36:49 -0600 (CST) From: FreeBSD Stable Subject: Possibly another RC2 ATA problem. 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