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Date:      Sat, 2 Nov 2002 15:16:46 -0500
From:      Hiten Pandya <hiten@angelica.unixdaemons.com>
To:        walt <wa1ter@hotmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Unsucessful with 5.0-CURRENT Installation on a 120G IDE HDD
Message-ID:  <20021102151646.A329@angelica.unixdaemons.com>
In-Reply-To: <3DC41BA9.5080102@hotmail.com>; from wa1ter@hotmail.com on Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 10:38:33AM -0800
References:  <aq0iur$ftd$1@FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw> <3DC41BA9.5080102@hotmail.com>

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On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 10:38:33AM -0800, walt wrote the words in effect of:
> Hiten Pandya wrote:
> > Hmm, OK.
> > 
> > Let me rephrase it all.
> > 
> > I have a 120G IDE disk, which is under LBA mode.  It is the second disk
> > on my system.  I have been using it with my old (julyish) -current for a
> > while now as a backup disk thingy.
> > 
> > My disk layout:
> > 
> > 	ad1s1: 8997MB  FreeBSD slice
> > 	ad1s3: 50995MB FreeBSD slice
> > 	ad1s2: 54478MB FAT32 slice
> 
> Here you are discussing ad1, which should (I think) be the slave drive
> on the first IDE controller.
> 
> 
> > This is how Sysinstall's fdisk reports it in 5.0-CURRENT-20021028.  The sizes
> > are displayed correctly here, but when I try labeling the disk through
> > sysinstall's Configure->Label, It shows:
> > 
> > Disk: ad3       Partition name: ad3s1   Free: 0 blocks (0MB)
> > Disk: ad3       Partition name: ad3s3   Free: 102110549 blocks (49858MB)
> 
> Here you are discussing ad3, which should be the slave drive on the *second*
> IDE controller.
> 
> Are you intending to discuss two different physical disks here?  I'm still

Oops, change that ad3 into ad1.

-- 
Hiten Pandya
hiten@unixdaemons.com, hiten@uk.FreeBSD.org, hiten@softweyr.com

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