Date: Sat, 12 Jul 1997 15:07:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Howard Lew <hlew@www2.shoppersnet.com> To: "Daniel R. Cox" <dan@coracle.fyi.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HARD DRIVE Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970712150558.11435C-100000@www2.shoppersnet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970712151547.267A-100000@coracle.fyi.net>
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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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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