Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 00:22:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Vincent Poy <vince@venus.GAIANET.NET> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD w/ 7 GIG Maxtor IDE HD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971023001800.259G-100000@venus.GAIANET.NET> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971022140612.1428C-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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On Wed, 22 Oct 1997, Doug White wrote: > On Tue, 21 Oct 1997, Vincent Poy wrote: > > > Greetings everyone, > > > > Today I attempted to install FreeBSD on a Maxtor 7 GIG EIDE Hard > > Drive but was unsuccessful. With the drive plugged in, FreeBSD probes the > > drive as 14475 cylinders, 8207 Heads, and 8255 Sectors per track while the > > drive and the BIOS has it as 14475 cylinders, 15 Heads, and 63 sectors per > > track. With the drive plugged in, the FreeBSD boot disk never made it to > > the sysinstall menu but just hung there until I booted without the drive > > attached. > > Hung where, exactly? Some systems have adverse effects to the terminal > init stuff in the dialog library and will jam there. My laptop happens to > be one of them. Try the new 2.2.5 install floppy, and don't worry too > much about the geometry as of yet. If you are dedicating the whole disk > to FreeBSD, it may help to put a DOS partition on the disk, then delete it > and install FreeBSD over it. This helps sysinstall get the geometry > right. The part where it hangs is during the boot disk probing, right after the probing, it's supposed to go to the sysinstall menu, instead, it just hangs there. I've verified this with the 2.2.5-RELEASE floppy as well. The funny thing is the boot disk works fine with even a 9 GIG Fast Wide SCSI drive and smaller IDE drives except for this one. I tried dedicating a whole disk with FreeBSD but never made it that far. I ran /stand/sysinstall as well and normally it would ask me which drives I want to install FreeBSD on but instead, it just defaults to sd0 without giving me a choice. As long as I can get to the sysinstall menu, I can type in the geometry for the drive but I can't. It seems like the drive itself is reporting the wrong info since it says Maxvor instead of Maxtor when probed. I tried doing a dos partition but the largest partition fat16 supports is 2 gigs so it didn't really make a difference. I was just wondering if anyone out there got this Maxtor 7 gig or any of the 6.4 gig drives working. Cheers, Vince - vince@MCESTATE.COM - vince@GAIANET.NET ________ __ ____ Unix Networking Operations - FreeBSD-Real Unix for Free / / / / | / |[__ ] GaiaNet Corporation - M & C Estate / / / / | / | __] ] Beverly Hills, California USA 90210 / / / / / |/ / | __] ] HongKong Stars/Gravis UltraSound Mailing Lists Admin /_/_/_/_/|___/|_|[____]
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