Hard Drive problems

David J Brooks daeg at houston.rr.com
Tue Mar 27 20:47:49 UTC 2007


On Tuesday 27 March 2007 02:29:29 pm Jason Gretz wrote:
> Hey guys I am adding a hard drive to my FreeBSD 6.1 box and it stalls
> during booting and makes a beeping noise. I know the hard drive is good
> because I just swapped it out of another FreeBSD box…
>
> So I’m kinda stumped, is there anyways to troubleshoot this? I can’t even
> boot in “safe” or “single-user mode”

Check the jumper settings on the drive itself. You may be trying to add a 
drive configured as Master into a chain that's expecting a Slave.

David
-- 
It's easier to take it apart than to put it back together.
		-- Washlesky


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