From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Sep 12 07:53:46 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id HAA08298 for hardware-outgoing; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 07:53:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from www.xinetron.com (www.xinetron.com [206.86.215.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id HAA08271; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 07:53:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pop.xinetron.com (pop.xinetron.com [206.86.215.82]) by www.xinetron.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA00851; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 07:53:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jason.xinetron.com (jason.xinetron.com [206.86.215.94]) by pop.xinetron.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA01666; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 07:53:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <34195761.2FEBB195@xinetron.com> Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 07:53:21 -0700 From: Jason Liao Organization: Xinetron, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.01 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Failed to install on WD WDC33100H HDD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Greetings, I tried to install FreeBSD 2.2.1 and 2.2.2 to a Western Digital WDC33100H IDE HDD (3.1G). The kernel booted off the floppy and detected the correct model and size of the HDD. However, it hung after displaying `/stand/sysinstall running as init on vty0'. Pressing Alt+F3 made the computer scream and only a hard reset could stop it. Installing to other HDDs is OK. Then I hooked the WDC33100H as a slave disk to an existing FreeBSD 2.2.1 system. When I tried to fdisk, fdisk reported wrong geometry and the kernel gave out lots of error messages: wd1s1c: hard error reading fsbn 1wd1: status 59 error 10 I connected the HDD back to a new system as the only HDD and booted with a kernel from a floppy diskette. I issued the following command: dd if=/dev/rwd0c of=/dev/null bs=1b count=512 I got the error message: wd0s1c: wdstart: timeout waiting to give command reading fsbn 1wd0: status 0 error 0 wd0s1c: wdstart: timeout waiting to give command reading fsbn 1wd0: status 0 error 1 The error messages repeated and the system hung. Any hints? Your help is appreciated. P.S. I tried this HDD on different computers ( Pentium and Pentium PRO), the same result. The HDD is OK in DOS environment. I heard of someone else encountered this problem on WD HDDs about 1 or 2 months ago. -- --------------------- Jason Liao ---------------------