Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 18:49:01 +0200 From: David =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sieb=F6rger?= <drs@rucus.ru.ac.za> To: Andrea Monaldi <magic_mac_96@yahoo.com> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cannot initialize disklabel Message-ID: <20020727164901.GA17685@rucus.ru.ac.za> In-Reply-To: <20020727162642.95117.qmail@web21504.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20020727160110.GA17532@rucus.ru.ac.za> <20020727162642.95117.qmail@web21504.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Sat 2002-07-27 (09:26), Andrea Monaldi wrote:
> If I had this it should not work well under Linux and
> W2K too, isn't it?
Maybe; maybe not. Linux, Windows 2000 and FreeBSD all have very
different IDE drivers.
> Anyway it's not this problem.
Have you actually checked the jumper? Make sure.
Perhaps I'm wrong - maybe it is something else - but the 4092
cylinders is just too much of a co-incidence to rule it out.
> It works bad ONLY in FreeBSD.
>
> BTW this HD was taken from an Apple G4 and has a
> little Apple on the top of the drive. Does it mean it
> has a different firmware? Why Linux and W2K works
> perfectly with it?
I wouldn't know.
> Does it make any sense if this
> drive has been partitioned by OS X previously, doing
> something strange, and preventing any usage with
> another BSD OS?
The cylinder/head/sector numbers in the dmesg output, for example,
ad0: 16479MB <Maxtor 91728D8> [33483/16/63] at ata0-master using UDMA33
^^^^^^^^^^^
are read from the drive without reference to the partition table. So
if you're seeing 4092 cylinders there, I doubt OS X is the problem.
--
David Siebörger
drs@rucus.ru.ac.za
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