From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 24 11:10: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from deepthought.granfalloon.com (gat1-81bf.rochester.rr.com [24.161.81.191]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B46137B423 for ; Thu, 24 Aug 2000 11:09:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (caleb@localhost) by deepthought.granfalloon.com (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA05053; Thu, 24 Aug 2000 14:15:26 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: deepthought.granfalloon.com: caleb owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 14:15:25 -0400 (EDT) From: Caleb Land X-Sender: caleb@deepthought.granfalloon.com To: Jeremy Scheer Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Western Digital Drives... In-Reply-To: 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 Hello, I have experienced similar problems trying to install freeBSD on my drive (WD 6GB). I would set everything up correctly, and then it would complain about making the slices. What I did to get around it (which might not be an option for you) is to lowlevel format the drive, and install freebsd on it first (before, I was trying to install freebsd on it with linux on the first partition). I am not sure if the numbers were changing like that, but I do know that in my case for some unknown reason, freebsd had to be the first OS put on a clean drive (now BeOS lives on a small second partition). I think linux might have mangled something with the H/C/S setting, though I'm not an expert on such things, so I don't want to blame anyone for something that they couldn't have done. I believe that they (linux and fbsd) are incompatible because when I run linux fdisk on the freebsd drive, it complains about the drive having the wrong settings. I just noticed that I mixed up the use of ``slice'' and ``partition,'' switch them in the above post. Sincerely, Caleb Land (bokonon@rochester.rr.com) On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, Jeremy Scheer wrote: > > > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message