From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 12 22:01:45 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA05494 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 12 Jul 1997 22:01:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.186.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA05486 for ; Sat, 12 Jul 1997 22:01:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA06439; Sat, 12 Jul 1997 21:56:40 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 12 Jul 1997 21:56:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White 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. I don't know of any driver problems with these disks. I'm running my FreeBSD system from a Caviar 31000 (1020MB) and it runs absolutely flawlessly. The suggestion to run the diagnostic utility is the best I've heard so far. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo