Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:34:17 +0200 From: "DA Forsyth" <iwrtech@iwr.ru.ac.za> To: Telpiz Sorin <margelatto@yahoo.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD Message-ID: <485141F9.31659.4E14366C@iwrtech.iwr.ru.ac.za> In-Reply-To: <948245.61083.qm@web45811.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> References: <948245.61083.qm@web45811.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>
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On 12 Jun 2008 , Telpiz Sorin entreated about
"Installing FreeBSD":
> =A0tried several times to install 7.0-RELEASE x amd64 on=A0my
> friend's=A0machine that is eqiupped with hard drive manufactured by
> Samsung. The hard drive (master) appears to have SATA interface,
> nonetheless SYSINSTALL regognizes it as ad04! Besides, SYSINSTALL
> complains about the disk's geometry=A0. The text console works very
> slowly, though the machine=A0(ASUS motherboard) has 2 Gigs of RAM
> and=A0a=A0good GeForce video board. For comparison, my old IBM machine (
> PentiumII , 128Mb RAM , 16Mb video memory ) runs Free BSD much more
> faster. Could you help us fix the=A0trouble? Best regards and much
> thanks. sorin at margelatto@yahoo.com=A0=A0=A0=A0
I had this with my Linux box at home. The solution is to change the
CMOS setting for the drive mode to 'enhanced' (on my motherboard at
any rate). If you use the compatibility mode then the chipset maps
the SATA drives to the 'IDE' space and speed will be limited to
somewhere around PIO4 (-:
in my experience, sysinstall ALWAYS complains about geometry and I
always just leave it and it always just works. YMMV
--
DA Fo rsyth Network Supervisor
Principal Technical Officer -- Institute for Water Research
http://www.ru.ac.za/institutes/iwr/
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