From owner-freebsd-i386@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 25 23:29:39 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-i386@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55FF7106567B for ; Fri, 25 Jul 2008 23:29:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from thedurkins@thedurkins.force9.co.uk) Received: from pih-cgirelay03.plus.net (pih-cgirelay03.plus.net [212.159.0.97]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 216048FC15 for ; Fri, 25 Jul 2008 23:29:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from thedurkins@thedurkins.force9.co.uk) Received: from [212.159.6.52] (helo=webmail.plus.net) by pih-cgirelay03.plus.net with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1KMWHx-0004X6-4e for freebsd-i386@freebsd.org; Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:01:29 +0100 Received: from 81.174.228.189 (SquirrelMail authenticated user thedurkins) by webmail.plus.net with HTTP; Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:01:26 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <3834.81.174.228.189.1217026886.squirrel@webmail.plus.net> Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:01:26 +0100 (BST) From: thedurkins@thedurkins.force9.co.uk To: freebsd-i386@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Subject: (no subject) X-BeenThere: freebsd-i386@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: I386-specific issues for FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 23:29:39 -0000 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?