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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: 1 May 1996 00:04:27 -0500 Organization: Mississippi State University Lines: 34 Message-ID: <aak2.830926735@Ra.MsState.Edu> References: <aak2.830530576@ra.msstate.edu> <4m3dua$3db@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: ra.msstate.edu X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #2 (NOV) j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes: >aak2@Ra.MsState.Edu (Atif Ahmad Khan) writes: >But you're aware that FreeBSD does use the BIOS just only for 10 >seconds after you turn on your computer? It's 0xDEADBEEF after >this... You were right. BIOS never was the problem. I later found out the it was my Intel PCI 100Mbps ethernet card, driver for which was just dying for no apparent reason. >>Now FreeBSD is getting the right parameters and doesnt give me an >What are ``the right parameters'' in your book? I was hoping that the parameters printed on the drive were the right parameters. >Needless to say, i wouldn't waste my money in a poor and braindead IDE >interface when buying a 2.5Gig drive, but you did it... This drive looks pretty good. Like I said, it was the driver for my ethernet card that was the problem and I was thinking it was the drive. I did buy a Fujitsu 2GB Fast SCSI drive that didn't work with freebsd at all. I couldn't even get past fdisk on that one. I am now using that as a NT/DOS drive on another computer. A friend of mine who had had plenty of experience with SCSI drives thought it was very strange what he saw when we tried to install FreeBSD on that SCSI drive but even after several tries couldn't resolve the problem. Atif Khan aak2@ra.msstate.edu