Anyone else having trouble with Samsung 160G drives?
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
chad at shire.net
Mon May 10 11:50:45 PDT 2004
On May 10, 2004, at 11:23 AM, Bill Moran wrote:
> This is the weirdest problem I'm seen in a while.
>
> Client bought a pair of 160G Samsung SP1604N ATA drives. I'm supposed
> to install
> them in an existing FreeBSD 4.9 system for additional storage space.
>
> As soon as the drives are installed, kernel won't boot. It freezes up
> right before
> the "ad0: ..." messages appear and won't respond to anything except
> the reset button.
> Tried primary slave, secondary slave ... threw in a Highpoint ATA card
> and tried
> every possible configuration ... no dice. This was on a relatively
> new AOpen mobo
> with a 2G processor (don't have the model # handy, but I'll get it if
> it's important)
>
When you moved the drives, did you move the cables? Can the problem be
diagnosed by switching out the cables?
Chad
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