From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Dec 18 17:10:11 1994 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id RAA10177 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 18 Dec 1994 17:10:11 -0800 Received: from Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (dbaker@starbase.NeoSoft.COM [198.64.6.26]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) with ESMTP id RAA10159 for ; Sun, 18 Dec 1994 17:10:09 -0800 Received: (from dbaker@localhost) by Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (8.6.9/8.6.9) id TAA28803; Sun, 18 Dec 1994 19:10:06 -0600 X-Provider: NeoSoft, Inc.: Internet Service Provider (713) 684-5969 Date: Sun, 18 Dec 1994 19:10:05 -0600 (CST) From: "Daniel A. Baker " To: Poul-Henning Kamp cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IDE Driver In-Reply-To: <199412181916.LAA17840@ref.tfs.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 18 Dec 1994, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > I talked to Scott Mace, and he told me what my problem is: > > > > The FreeBSD IDE driver dosen't appear to support the geometry of a IDE > > device that has a translated device with more that 32 heads... > > Wrong. FreeBSD has no problems doing this, but you must >TELL< it to. > During the install, in the Fdisk screen, use the (G)eometry function to > enter the geometry you want. Scott says thats what he tried... He said that the IDE driver just freaked and gave error messages when he did more than 32 heads.. -- Daniel Baker -- NeoSoft FTP/UseNet Administrator (713)531-8571 DBaker@NeoSoft.COM DBaker@UuNeo.NeoSoft.COM