Date: Sat, 12 Jul 1997 21:56:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "Daniel R. Cox" <dan@coracle.fyi.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HARD DRIVE Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970712215600.6418B-100000@localhost> 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. 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
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