Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:01:26 +0100 (BST) From: thedurkins@thedurkins.force9.co.uk To: freebsd-i386@freebsd.org Subject: (no subject) Message-ID: <3834.81.174.228.189.1217026886.squirrel@webmail.plus.net>
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Hi all, I am trying to install a 320Gb hard drive on to an old PC running FreeBSD 6.2. (Release #0) The BIOS correctly picks up the drive as a slave IDE on boot-up and correctly reports it’s size but I cannot mount it once the OS has booted up. The errors flash past too quickly and do not appear to have been logged anywhere in /var/log. But attempts to mount the drive always result in failure and a system crash! It looks like a pagefile error that’s reported but hard to say as I can’t freeze the screen to get the full message. The drive is not blank so cannot be formatted. It is a Maxtor STM3320820A. The PC is Pentium based 200Mhz (Yes it is that old!!) with 32 Mb Ram, the mother board is a gigabyte gv-586atv. I am at a bit of a loss and would really appreciate some thoughts from anyone who’s been there before… I feel this should work but am I just wasting my time?
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