From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 4 3:29:38 2001 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 4 03:29:35 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.i-clue.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90AC837B400 for ; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 03:29:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.i-clue.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id NAA10335; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 13:35:57 +0100 Message-ID: <3A545ED2.7F26DC7@i-clue.de> Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 12:30:26 +0100 From: Christoph Sold Reply-To: christoph.sold@server.i-clue.de Organization: i-clue interactive X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [de] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Drew Linsalata Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ad driver problems and 4.0-RELEASE References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Drew Linsalata schrieb: > > 1.3.2001 > > I'm seeing a slew of posts archived at DejaNews concerning the exact problem > I am seeing installing 4.0-RELEASE with two WD 15.3GB EIDE drives. The > disks and IDE controllers are detected at boot time, and fdisk seems to read > the drive geometry correctly, but I cannot newfs (either manually or via > sysinstall) as I am confronted with "slice extends beyond end of disk" and > "slice starts beyond end of disk" errors. > > I've tried all BIOS settings LBA, large, manual, etc. for these drives, but > no luck. > > Has anyone found a fix for this, should I just bite the bullet and order a > new set of CDs? Alternatively, you may just CVSup and make upgrade. Been there, done that: Three to four hours over a 56k modem line. Remember: /usr/src/UPDATING is your friend. HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message