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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD has problems with ALL SEAGATE Hard Disks (SCSI Included)
Date: Thu, 04 Jul 1996 16:37:55 -0700
Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM
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To: Benjamin Lim <fade@infolink.net>

Benjamin Lim wrote:
> 
> A lot of people all get Write errors.

But this is untrue.  I've installed FreeBSD on dozens of Seagate hard
disks, SCSI especially.  I don't know what kinds of problems you folks
are having, but you've misidentified the problem if you somehow think
that all Seagate drives everywhere are suddenly failing to work.  I
assume you folks are all doing dedicated installs, no DOS on the disk? 
And you've tried the hardware guide's suggestion of installing a very
small DOS partition and seeing if that makes a difference?
-- 
- Jordan Hubbard
  President, FreeBSD Project