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Date:      Fri, 3 Jul 1998 09:49:28 -0400 
From:      "Beaudoin, Jean-Marc" <Beaudoin.Jean-Marc@hydro.qc.ca>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Disk Offset to -63
Message-ID:  <B133E9EF340BD011B88C00805FE21F27DF4230@msxvpti01.vpi.hydro.qc.ca>

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Good day,

I am trying to run the fdisk utility to install FreeBSD 2.2.6.

It gives me an Offset value of -63 on the disk. The disk is was a Fujitsu
IDE 1,08 Gb.

Of course with the Offset at -63 FreeBSD will not install.

Yester I bought a new one (Quantum BigFoot 2.5Gb), modify the master disk
entry in the BIOS, ran the Disk Manager utility that came with the disk.

I still get an offset of -63.

My guess at this point is that the problem is not with the IDE drive but
mostly with the BIOS.

The PC (a test PC) is a 486 dx4/100 with 64 Mb or RAM.

Anyone had to deal with this? How can I bypass this Offset of -63? Or is
there something I should know about FreeBSD partitionning?

Regards,


____________________
Jean-Marc Beaudoin, consultant
Projet AN 2000 (VAX/OpenVMS)
Tél.:   289-2211 (6405) 
Beaudoin.Jean-Marc@hydro.qc.ca  
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