From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 9 21:37:20 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id VAA08929 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 9 Oct 1995 21:37:20 -0700 Received: from andrew.cmu.edu (ANDREW.CMU.EDU [128.2.10.101]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id VAA08924 for ; Mon, 9 Oct 1995 21:37:17 -0700 Received: (from postman@localhost) by andrew.cmu.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id AAA27616 for freebsd-questions@freefall.FreeBSD.org; Tue, 10 Oct 1995 00:37:12 -0400 Received: via switchmail; Tue, 10 Oct 1995 00:37:11 -0400 (EDT) Received: from unix14.andrew.cmu.edu via qmail ID ; Tue, 10 Oct 1995 00:37:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: from unix14.andrew.cmu.edu via qmail ID ; Tue, 10 Oct 1995 00:37:03 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Messages.8.5.N.CUILIB.3.45.SNAP.NOT.LINKED.unix14.andrew.cmu.edu.sun4c.411 via MS.5.6.unix14.andrew.cmu.edu.sun4c_411; Tue, 10 Oct 1995 00:37:03 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 10 Oct 1995 00:37:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert N Watson To: freebsd-questions@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: disklabel/fdisk and wd1 -- help please! Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk This afternoon I installed an older 540 meg IDE drive I had lying around in my pentium 120 system (it had been a freebsd boot disk for my 386 system, but I wanted to up my server capacity a bit, so.. :) The drive works fine -- it's been running for a few years on the 386, and running freebsd at that. It has some oddities -- one is that it's about the 1024 cylinder limit, but that should pose no problem on a realistic operating system? That's what I thought ;). Here's my disk config order -- if anyone could point out where I made my error, I'd appreciate it a lot. I feel pretty silly -- I installed an 85 meg IDE hd in the same system yesterday ;) (I swapped that out into the 386 to make up for the loss of the 540 ;). Yes, it's configured as a slave, etc. step 1 - fdisk: ---- Robert Watson (rnw+@andrew.cmu.edu) * Double major: IDS/CS * H&SS http://www.watson.org/ robert@fledge.watson.org