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From: Pedro A M Vazquez <vazquez@IQM.Unicamp.BR>
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Subject: Re: IBM HD's
To: yves@CC.McGill.CA (Yves Lepage)
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 1996 13:42:00 +0000 ()
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In-Reply-To: <199606151525.LAA18470@maelstrom.CC.McGill.CA> from "Yves Lepage" at Jun 15, 96 11:25:53 am
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Yves Lepage said:
> 
> 
> - 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.
> 
Hmmm, I don't know about SCSI but the IDE 1.08 Quantum Fireball works
just fine for me :

wdc0: unit 1 (wd1): <QUANTUM FIREBALL1080A>, 32-bit, multi-block-8
wd1: 1039MB (2128896 sectors), 2112 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S

it the fastest IDE we run here

Pedro