Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 09:40:07 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Subject: Re: 2.2-ALPHA install failure Message-ID: <199611240840.JAA09736@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199611231208.WAA22633@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from Michael Smith at "Nov 23, 96 10:38:12 pm"
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
As Michael Smith wrote:
> > I've been using NCR's for 2 years and even now a box with one
> > is near me installed a while ago. Each and every such a box
> > with just any HDD brand was installed in a 'dangerously dedicated'
> > fascion and it just worked.
>
> *shrug* Bruce recently posted the results of some tests he performed,
> which matched with my empirical observations that the NCR BIOS reads
> the contents of the MBR and reports its geometry to match.
Just to second Andrew's statement, that's the fdisk table of my sd0.
I have moved it from an EISA Bt742A controller to an NCR 53c810 when
turning my system PCI:
j@uriah 882% /sbin/fdisk
******* Working on device /dev/rsd0 *******
parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
cylinders=4177 heads=8 sectors/track=125 (1000 blks/cyl)
Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1
parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
cylinders=4177 heads=8 sectors/track=125 (1000 blks/cyl)
Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
Information from DOS bootblock is:
The data for partition 0 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 1 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 2 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 3 is:
sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
start 0, size 50000 (24 Meg), flag 80
beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 0;
end: cyl 1023/ sector 63/ head 255
As you can see, the fdisk table is bogus. The mainboard (and thus NCR
BIOS) is an ASUS one.
--
cheers, J"org
joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199611240840.JAA09736>