"Richard E. Hawkins" wrote: > > I sent this earlier, but it doesn't seem to have made it to hte list . . > . > > This weekend, I tried installing the 20G IBM drive I picked up on > vacation, and I think it has serious problem s :( > > It chirps, which seems to come haveter a major (loud) move of the > heads. The bios can find the drive about half the time, and reports > possible geometry choices, the least number of cylinders being 2053 or > so. > > Neiter cfdisk nor fdisk, nor the FreeBSD utilities, can read the disk, > reporting various timeout problems. The FreeBSD bootloader noticed that > the disk existed--once. > > I've tried reading it on two different computers: the K6 on a Shuttle > 603 where it's supposed to live, and on an IBM P133. Neither has been > able to fdisk it. > > If this was a sub-1024 clinder disk, I'd have called to have it replaced > by now. I'm hoping that I'm missing something that would let me > initialize the disk and be on my way. > > hawk > > -- > Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. Smeal 178 (814) 375-4700 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > These opinions will not be those of Penn State until it pays my > retainer. > > -- Seems like your disk is pretty much dead. There has been reports earlier of IBM's being bad or getting bad very quickly. My guess is they've accidentally sold a bad production run, and some of these are still lying around waiting to be sold & replaced... Good Luck Vitux
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