From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Aug 18 23:22:38 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA14468 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 18 Aug 1997 23:22:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA14461 for ; Mon, 18 Aug 1997 23:22:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id IAA13579; Tue, 19 Aug 1997 08:22:32 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.7/8.8.5) id IAA19379; Tue, 19 Aug 1997 08:06:18 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970819080618.XR34263@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 08:06:18 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Cc: imp@rover.village.org (Warner Losh) Subject: Re: fdisk and BIOS References: X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: ; from Warner Losh on Aug 18, 1997 23:05:02 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Warner Losh wrote: > OK. I'm really confused. I just tried to use the FreeBSD fdisk to > label a disk with the proper c/h/s values for the disk (it is an old > IDE disk). I've never seen this, but well, better tell exactly what you were doing, and what the disk parameters (in particular the BIOS ones) are. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)