Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2012 03:21:28 -0800 (PST) From: Bill Tillman <btillman99@yahoo.com> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 9.0-RELEASE amd64 Bricked My Hard Drive Message-ID: <1325848888.86578.YahooMailNeo@web36504.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <CAFuo_fxUsvtNbRRy4WS34hW9=JCEhKAMYQd7h9cKseDDd%2Bdh2w@mail.gmail.com> References: <4F0517BA.1050405@mykitchentable.net> <1325819792.82542.YahooMailNeo@web36502.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <CAFuo_fxUsvtNbRRy4WS34hW9=JCEhKAMYQd7h9cKseDDd%2Bdh2w@mail.gmail.com>
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=0A=0A =0A=0A________________________________=0A=0AFrom: Waitman Gobble <go= bble.wa@gmail.com>=0ATo: Bill Tillman <btillman99@yahoo.com> =0ACc: FreeBSD= Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> =0ASent: Friday, January 6, 2012= 5:09 AM=0ASubject: Re: 9.0-RELEASE amd64 Bricked My Hard Drive=0A=0A=0AOn = Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 7:16 PM, Bill Tillman <btillman99@yahoo.com> wrote:=0A= =0A> Today I encountered a problem which has me stumped. I downloaded and= =0A> burned the ISO image for 9.0-RELEASE for amd64. I=A0 installed an olde= r=0A> IDE hard drive to test the new OS with and did the install.=0A=0A...= =0A=0A> Well the install finished and=0A> then I attempted to reboot the sy= stem but nothing happened. And by that I=0A> mean the computer's flash scre= en would come up and give me the choice=0A> to enter the Bios Setup or Boot= Menu and that's all. I could not enter the=0A> bios setup or the Boot menu= .=0A=0A...=0A=0A> So basically,=0A> FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE bricked an otherwis= e good 80GB hard drive=0A> and I can't seem to recover it.=0A>=0A>=0A>=0AHi= Bill,=0A=0AWhat was going on with this drive before the install?=A0 ie, it= was sitting=0Aon the self not being used, it was a daily use machine runni= ng something=0Aelse, ... etc.=0AAt the moment it sounds to me like an incon= venient hardware failure.=0A=0AWaitman=0A__________________________________= _____________=0Afreebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list=0Ahttp://lists.f= reebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions=0ATo unsubscribe, send any ma= il to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"=0A=0AI had been running a= similar computer with Windows XP with it. The =0Adrive was working fine a = few moments before I did the install. I have=0Aa utility to test=A0hard dri= ves which boots from CD but like I said, when=0Athis drive is on a cable co= nnected to any machine, booting is a =0Anon-option. I have an old IDE contr= oller=A0but it's ISA=A0and I have=0Anot ISA slots on this computer.=A0Looks= like I may have to try the USB=0Adrive boot option to get on with this res= cue.
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