From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 13 18:08:29 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id SAA05188 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 13 Mar 1995 18:08:29 -0800 Received: from estienne.cs.berkeley.edu (estienne.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.42.147]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA05182 for ; Mon, 13 Mar 1995 18:08:27 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by estienne.cs.berkeley.edu (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id SAA00954; Mon, 13 Mar 1995 18:08:24 -0800 Message-Id: <199503140208.SAA00954@estienne.cs.berkeley.edu> X-Authentication-Warning: estienne.cs.berkeley.edu: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: Joe Lowe cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Can't install file system In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 13 Mar 1995 20:03:40 CST." Date: Mon, 13 Mar 1995 18:08:24 -0800 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > >On Mon, 13 Mar 1995, Justin T. Gibbs wrote: > > >> Hey! I wrote the driver for that card. ;-) I hope it will work for you >> once we get the geometry issue fixed for you. >> > >Well, nice try but no ceegar... BSD seemed to know about the extended >translation of 255 heads, 63 sectors. I just used the default values BSD >suggested, which were correct. I still got the same error code. > >It's not looking too good is it? I think another nuke is in my future... > >The manual says not ot use extended translation with multiple partitions, >I guess there must be a reason. :-) > >I will wait until I hear from you before I do the deed. > >Thanks, >Joe This is with 2.0R or the 2.0-950210-SNAP? You are probably running into the problem that newfs doesn't allocate large enough cylinder groups for a drive with that type of translation. If you are trying the SNAP, then I guess a nuke is in your future, but I know of at least two people who have doen this sucessfully under SNAP. -- Justin T. Gibbs ============================================== TCS Instructional Group - Programmer/Analyst 1 Cory | Po | Danube | Volga | Parker | Torus ==============================================