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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!enews.sgi.com!sgigate.sgi.com!swrinde!cssun.mathcs.emory.edu!nntp.msstate.edu!Ra.MsState.Edu!aak2 From: aak2@Ra.MsState.Edu (Atif Ahmad Khan) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Western Digital 2.5GB IDE HD doesn't work under FreeBSD ! Date: 30 Apr 1996 23:56:24 -0500 Organization: Mississippi State University Lines: 33 Message-ID: <aak2.830926330@Ra.MsState.Edu> References: <aak2.830530576@Ra.MsState.Edu> <4m02u4$c00@dyson.iquest.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: ra.msstate.edu X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #2 (NOV) root@dyson.iquest.net (John S. Dyson) writes: >In article <aak2.830530576@Ra.MsState.Edu>, >Atif Ahmad Khan <aak2@Ra.MsState.Edu> wrote: >> >>I just bought a Western Digital 2.5GB hard drive and it doesn't >>seem to work under FreeBSD ! >Hmmm... It works for me. The drive is very very fast!!! I appologize about for posting incorrect information. I finally found out the problem. It is the Intel PCI ethernet card that just dies. I suspect the driver is not very mature yet. Somehow it worked halfway through when I was using an 850MB drive when I decided to abort the installation. >>I have a very new ASUS motherboard with Award BIOS. The BIOS had >I do also. I have put in a 3COM 3c509 and installation in coming along just fine. >I believe in the install process you could set the fdisk slice information >identically, and might be able to make progress with a disklabel like mine >above? Again, I don't boot from my 2.5GB Caviar, so I am not sure how >the bios interacts with this large of an IDE drive. BTW, I get about >8-9MBytes/sec read perf on this baby!!! Wow ! 8MBytes/sec, I cant wait to start using the new drive. My only concern is the Intel PCI, I was very exciting about this also, but it doesn't seem to be working well for me. Is it for anybody else ? Atif Khan aak2@ra.msstate.edu