From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 12 03:21:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA25319 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 12 Nov 1998 03:21:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freebsd.dk (sos.freebsd.dk [212.242.42.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA25314 for ; Thu, 12 Nov 1998 03:21:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sos@freebsd.dk) Received: (from sos@localhost) by freebsd.dk (8.9.1/8.9.1) id MAA00639; Thu, 12 Nov 1998 12:21:25 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from sos) From: Søren Schmidt Message-Id: <199811121121.MAA00639@freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: Maxtor Diamondmax 8.4 (UDMA33) + WD Caviar 3.2 (UDMA33) In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19981112114948.009525d0@mail.scancall.no> from Marius Bendiksen at "Nov 12, 1998 11:49:48 am" To: Marius.Bendiksen@scancall.no (Marius Bendiksen) Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 12:21:25 +0100 (CET) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It seems Marius Bendiksen wrote: > Sorry if this has been posted to the wrong list. > > I then replaced the 3.2 with the 8.4, and lo' and behold, it seems to work > like a charm, with some exceptions. I've not tried it for more than about > 12 hours, though, and the probe reports some wierd characters after the > Maxtor some-or-other bit with the wdc0 probe. Also, the BIOS hangs for > about 15 minutes while detecting IDE devices, and reports secondary slave > failure (even though I've got none, and have reset the BIOS information). I > have to use a custom boot floppy, without wd3, because wd3 always hangs the > installation with maxed out tracks, heads and sectors count. What kind of Motherboard are you using ?? with which chipset ?? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Søren Schmidt (sos@freebsd.org) FreeBSD Core Team member To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message