Here's some further information: On Saturday 13 July 2002 23:01, Steve Mazerski wrote: (...) > Every time the "waiting" symbols (i.e. the ASCII chars |/-\ ) appears, the > system seems to be doing a series of seeks to each hard disks > alternatively, but nothing else apart from keeping the "waiting" symbol > turning.
The sound is a sort of "twang twock". By disconnecting all other drives I have determined that the sound is coming from the primary IDE drive ( WDC AC28400R ). With this drive disconnect I did a fresh install on a couple of ancient drives. FreeBSD booted from these without displaying the problem described, which leads me to believe the problem lies with Western Digital itself. Drive: Western Digital WDC AC28400R Board: Asus P5A-B , BIOS version 1005 Chipset: ALI15X3 BIOS settings for the drives are as autodetected, I am not an avid BIOS tweaker. I haven't found any references to this kind of problem through google etc. It's damned annoying, I was hoping to be worrying myself with more trivial problems like Flash Player for Mozilla by now ;-) Any ideas? S.Mazerski To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
