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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Western Digital 2.5GB IDE HD doesn't work under FreeBSD !
Date: 1 May 1996 20:52:32 GMT
Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden
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aak2@Ra.MsState.Edu (Atif Ahmad Khan) writes:

>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.

That merely looks like a controller (or controller driver) problem
than a drive problem.  My machine at work does also have a Fujitsu 2
GB 7200 rpm drive (it's always hard to remember Fujitsu's model
numbers, but it's most likely the same as yours).  It's sitting on an
AHA-2940 (and later got a companion Quantum drive on the same bus),
and i can only find good words for it.

(fdisk... whats'at? :-) All my drives are dedicated, so i don't care
for fdisk partitioning at all.  I hope you didn't made the mistake and
used the W)rite menu option in any of the sysinstall menus???)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)