Date: Sun, 16 Jun 1996 10:45:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Jake Hamby <jehamby@lightside.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Yves Lepage <yves@CC.McGill.CA>, hackers@freebsd.org, yves@maelstrom.CC.McGill.CA Subject: Re: IBM HD's Message-ID: <Pine.AUX.3.91.960616104407.20662A-100000@covina.lightside.com> In-Reply-To: <20612.834854485@time.cdrom.com>
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On Sat, 15 Jun 1996, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > - Quantum Fireball > > I can also verify this one - we had a machine at the office with one > of these drives in it (before it was torn apart for scrap :-) and we > never could get FreeBSD to install on it. Exact same symptoms. > > I never did figure out what was going on and the machine is history > now so I never will.. Hmmmm. I wonder if the output of `boot -v' > would be helpful. FreeBSD is clearly not happy with its attempts to > write on this drive, there must be something "special" about it! > > Jordan I have a SCSI Quantum Fireball (and a Quantum Lightning) no problems installing FreeBSD on either drive. I suspect that Quantum might not be very good at IDE since I only hear about their SCSI drives. My opinion is if you want a good IDE drive, get a Western Digital, if you want a good SCSI drive, get a Quantum. Just my two cents... ---Jake
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