Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2015 19:29:12 +0000 From: John McDonnell <mcdonnjd@pcam.org> To: John McDonnell <mcdonnjd@pcam.org>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: POS system trashing hard drives during install - SOLVED Message-ID: <BLUPR07MB321689E111575C8BEDDAA90BAE50@BLUPR07MB321.namprd07.prod.outlook.com>
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> The BIOS by default is set to autodetect the mode for the hard drive and > reports these settings: > Cylinders: 19158 > Heads: 16 > Sectors: 255 >=20 > Capacity: 40022MB >=20 > Changing to LBA mode reports: > Cylinders: 4865 > Heads: 255 > Sectors: 63 >=20 > Capacity: 40018 MB I changed the BIOS from AUTO to LBA and was able to install FreeBSD on this= POS system. Hopefully I can change the BIOS on the one I have at home to L= BA instead of AUTO and have it recognize one of the 80 GB drives I previous= ly tried to set up. But in any case, going forward on these computers, I at= least know that I can get them to work with a little tweak to the BIOS HDD= geometry reporting. Thank you for your time. --=20 John McDonnell Penn Cambria School District mcdonnjd@pcam.org
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