Date: Sat, 15 Jun 1996 11:25:53 -0400 (EDT) From: Yves Lepage <yves@CC.McGill.CA> To: hackers@freebsd.org Cc: yves@maelstrom.CC.McGill.CA Subject: IBM HD's Message-ID: <199606151525.LAA18470@maelstrom.CC.McGill.CA>
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Hi all, During my attemps to install FreeBSD on some 50 machines for one of the Inet96 workshops, I had to fight with a few of these machines which had one of these two kind of HD: - IBM-DALA - Quantum Fireball I could partition the disks no problem and I could do a bad block scan with also no problem. Problems began when I created the Unix filesystems. First, I'd get an error message that FreeBSD couldn't swap on wd0s2b because the device is not configured. Then, the creation of a filesystem on wd0a would fail. Just as if the labeler didn't know how to access these disks. I suspect that these two disks have a strange controller (IDE). Did anyone encounter this kind of problem before and if so, what did they do to solve it? Thanks a lot, Yves Lepage PS: yes I did play with the geometry parameters but that didn't do anything.
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