From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Jul 27 9:49: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E983937B400 for ; Sat, 27 Jul 2002 09:49:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from server.rucus.ru.ac.za (server.rucus.ru.ac.za [146.231.115.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8ED9443E3B for ; Sat, 27 Jul 2002 09:49:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drs@rucus.ru.ac.za) Received: (qmail 14060 invoked from network); 27 Jul 2002 16:49:01 -0000 Received: from bashir.dsl.ru.ac.za (146.231.113.19) by server.rucus.ru.ac.za with SMTP; 27 Jul 2002 16:49:01 -0000 Received: (qmail 17721 invoked by uid 1001); 27 Jul 2002 16:49:02 -0000 Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 18:49:01 +0200 From: David =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sieb=F6rger?= To: Andrea Monaldi Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cannot initialize disklabel Message-ID: <20020727164901.GA17685@rucus.ru.ac.za> References: <20020727160110.GA17532@rucus.ru.ac.za> <20020727162642.95117.qmail@web21504.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20020727162642.95117.qmail@web21504.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 [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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message