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About this blog: Computers hate me. They really do. Every time I try to do something unusual like add new hardware, something is guaranteed to go wrong. I decided to start writing about my constant problems so that someone else might benefit from my experiences - or at least laugh at them!

07 February 2008, 12:10am

Just for fun I put two of the "retired" Seagate 300GB SATA drives - ones that are not faulty according to Windows and Seatools - into one of my FreeBSD 6.2 servers to use as temporary scratch. I didn't get very far: FreeBSD panics at boot as long as they are connected.

Is that like a snobby sixth sense, it KNOWS they're going to fail sooner or later so it throws a tantrum and refuses to work with them? :)