From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 12 15:11:20 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA22099 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 12 Jul 1997 15:11:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from www2.shoppersnet.com (shoppersnet.com [204.156.152.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA22092 for ; Sat, 12 Jul 1997 15:11:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from hlew@localhost) by www2.shoppersnet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA12196; Sat, 12 Jul 1997 15:07:50 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 12 Jul 1997 15:07:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Howard Lew To: "Daniel R. Cox" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HARD DRIVE In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 12 Jul 1997, Daniel R. Cox wrote: > I was wondering if there are any known problems using Western Digital > Hard Drives with FreeBSD? I have had multiple seekzone errors over > multiple installs using a 850MEG WD drive.. with LBA mode on and off with > no differance. I am currently using FreeBSD version 2.1.5 but am > planning on upgrading soon. I would appriciate any help you can provide. Sometimes, those seekzone errors are truly surface defects. If so, you can remap them with wd_diag.exe from Western Digital to solve this problem. You will probably need to reinstall though. If they are not surface problems, check to make sure that you are not using those extra flags for the ide controller. > > Thanks! > > Daniel R. Cox > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Shoppers Network (Support) AMD K5/K6s, Cyrix 6x86, Intel Pentiums/Pro Phone: (415) 759-8584 Email: howard@shoppersnet.com ==============================> WWW - http://www.shoppersnet.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~