From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 24 10:11:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mecca.servint.com (mecca.servint.com [209.50.225.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A30F137B422 for ; Thu, 24 Aug 2000 10:11:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (jeremy@localhost) by mecca.servint.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) with ESMTP id NAA11968 for ; Thu, 24 Aug 2000 13:32:37 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 13:32:36 -0400 (EDT) From: Jeremy Scheer To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Western Digital Drives... Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi there... I'm trying to install FreeBSD 4 on a Western Digital WD102AA. It's an LBA drive, the BIOS on the motherboard in LBA-compatible. The problem I'm having is, whenever I try to write slices, the parameters at the top of the screen are getting bumped to 1247/26/63, even after I change the geometry to fit the drive. In turn, I can't write the BSD partitions to the disk. I keep on clocking errors that the system can't write due to invalid configurations. The drive is fine - I've installed 2K, 98 on it no problem. I noticed on your website under the "installation procedures" part there's a screen shot of an fdisk of a Western Digital drive with the exact same parameters as mine. The irony was overwhelming. :) Any ideas? I've searched your site and can't seem to come up with a viable solution to this issue. Could you point me in the right direction? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Jeremy Scheer Engineer Servint To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message