From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 12 22:27:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 469A337B401 for ; Thu, 12 Dec 2002 22:27:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from blue.dls.net (blue.dls.net [209.242.10.156]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9238243EC2 for ; Thu, 12 Dec 2002 22:27:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from list@monkeybreadsoftware.com) Received: from [192.168.0.8] (unknown [216.180.165.208]) by blue.dls.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 687801202DE for ; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 00:26:59 -0600 (CST) User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.1.1.2418 Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 00:27:14 -0600 Subject: Ontrack and track boundaries From: Matt Ronge To: fbsd Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20021212180321.GA11246@moo.holy.cow> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello all! I just recently wiped out my FreeBSD system for reasons I won't get into here and began installing a fresh copy. Anyway, my computer requires the Ontrack Dynamic Drive Overlay because of a BIOS limit of 33Gig. I have installed the DDO software just like I did before but when I go to install FreeBSD, FreeBSD complains. Fdisk shows that the drives offset starts at -63 and when I try and create a partition it complanes about incorrect track boundaries. Here is what I do in order to install BSD: 1. Boot up off Ontrack DDO floppy 2. Tell drive to report as 33G instead of 80G and restart 3. Format drive using Ontrack as fat32 inorder to install software 4. Boot up with FreeBSD to try and partition 5. Error! A side note is that if I don't format the drive as fat32 first DDO doesn't installed and BSD only sees 33G. Also my drive is an IBM Deskstar80GXP I believe. I know it works since I had it running before. Thanks -- Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message