From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 25 16:40:13 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA22169 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Mar 1996 16:40:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from othello.dataware.de (othello.dataware.de [194.77.19.26]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA22074 for ; Mon, 25 Mar 1996 16:39:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from JASON (moebius.rct.de [194.77.17.4]) by othello.dataware.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id BAA05555 for ; Tue, 26 Mar 1996 01:34:06 +0100 Message-Id: <199603260034.BAA05555@othello.dataware.de> Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "Jason Diesel" To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 02:29:09 +0000 Subject: Hard Disk, answers ... Reply-to: jdiesel@iee.org Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.23) Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi there I did send an email yesterday, regarding this subject, but got no answers (which I usually do very promptly), so I thought that my information supplied was not complete enough, so here goes once again. I have a standard pc, 386DX 40Mhz, with 8Mb RAM, and: Maxtor HDD 1024 cyl, 16 heads and 63 sectors = 504Mb, bytes / sector = 512. Under DOS the HDD works perfectly, and so do the serial ports! The program QA Plus (for those of you who know it) reports that the HDD is an IDE type with a HD base = 1F0h. I have partitioned it into three partitions and the once I am trying to install FreeBSD onto is 200Mb. I do a rawrite of the boot.flp onto a diskette, and boot the system. My experience tells me what to look for. I find the network card, and the console and standard things, but no serial ports (COM1 and COM2) and no wdc0. I reboot DOS and all are there. I do have an oldish controller card, where the serial, parallel, floppy and HDD controller are all on one card, and I have lost the instructions to the card so I don't know exactly what jumpers should go where, but it all works under DOS. Is there a problem with the 1024 cyl, I did read teh FAQ sheet and noticed some issues on the 1024 cyl stuff. I also noticed in some source code (wd.c) that it has some comments about 1023 ... But in the source it also shows that an error will be shown if this does happen, but why do I loose my serial ports. I would appreciate any information, like maybe changing the bios on what disk I have, etc. Many thanx JAson *********************************************************** Please Note, my new e-mail address: jdiesel@iee.org *********************************************************** Jason Diesel ======================jdiesel@iee.org====================== http://www.dataware.de/~jason