From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 9 15:49: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.HiWAAY.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B129E14F7A for ; Tue, 9 Mar 1999 15:49:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt8-216-180-15-34.dialup.HiWAAY.net [216.180.15.34]) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.1a/8.9.0) with ESMTP id RAA18969; Tue, 9 Mar 1999 17:48:43 -0600 (CST) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id RAA03213; Tue, 9 Mar 1999 17:48:41 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Message-Id: <199903092348.RAA03213@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Mike Lane Cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" From: David Kelly Subject: Re: Seagate ST34573N In-reply-to: Message from Mike Lane of "Tue, 09 Mar 1999 11:32:18 PST." <79D37F695317D211A66D00E0291A770C0F77CC@srvexchange.tfs.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 17:48:41 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike Lane writes: > I'm trying to install 2.2.6 on the seagate ST34573N disk drive. The install > hang while loading the system file to the disk drive. I've tried several > different ST34573N drives with the same result. Is that one of the new 9G drives? I forget the numbers but believe the 9G drive was ST34173. I have installed on the '173W. It was totally uneventful. In the past some have reported it helpful for FreeBSD to learn "geometry" to use a Microsoft fdisk to create the initial partitioning of the HD, even if the first thing you do in FreeBSD sysinstall is wipe that partition table. In my case with the Seagate 9G HD I had made and installed a 1G NTFS partition earlier. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message