Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 09:35:16 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: cz@aegisnet.biz (Carsten Zimmermann) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Partitioning fails due to drive geometry inconsistency Message-ID: <200405031335.i43DZH029827@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20040503090312.GB3018@iluvatar.bbk.hh.aegisnet.de> from "Carsten Zimmermann" at May 03, 2004 11:03:12 AM
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> > Hello list. > > I know this had been discussed quite often, but none of the posting > google offered worked out for me. Please (B)Cc: me as I am not on the list.= > =20 > > I have a Western Digital WDC WD400AB-00CMB0 40 GB IDE drive hooked in as > pri slave in my system and wish to install FreeBSD on it. This is not my > first install, but it won't work this time (using 5.2.1-R): > > I try to partition the drive with fdisk during the installation process. > Everytime I hit "w" to write the changes, the program catches ``sig 11'' > (segfault?). Curious thing is: I was able to delete partions but I > cannot create new ones. I tried every option concerning bootsector (boot > mngr, std mbr, none) and the error occures every time. > > When I enter the fdisk tool it tells me that the drive geometry > "778545/16/63" is wrong. I don't have a clue where it gets that value. > The BIOS detects the geometry as 19158/16/255. The auto-corrected value > is 4865/255/63 which equals the BIOS-setting when access mode is set to > LBA manually. When I enter the geometry manually with "g", it still > mourns the value 19158/16/255 is not correct and again falls back to > those LBA values. Check out this web page. It is actually a review, but it contains some information on this in the middle of the article that you may find helpful. http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=review-freeb ////jerry > > Important to say: the drive seems to work well on WinXP. I encountered > no problem there. Using the DEBUG=3Dyes in the installation options menue > revealed some UDMA ICRC ... crap error style messages. > For this I played with UDMA und PIO-mode settings for IDE pri-slave in=20 > the BIOS. Unfortunately, nothing happens (save the above errors ;). > > I hope anyone can help me with this issues which slowly driving me > crazy... Thank you! > > Carsten > > > --=20 > Carsten Zimmermann > mailto:cz@aegisnet.biz > Tel.: +49-(0)40-98760543 > > PGP: http://hacksocke.de/public_key.asc > > Aegis:Net IT-Dienstleistungen > Postfach 620371 > 22403 Hamburg > http://www.aegisnet.biz > Info: +49-(0)700-AEGISNET > Fax: +49-(0)40-98760547 > > > --QRj9sO5tAVLaXnSD > Content-Type: application/pgp-signature > Content-Disposition: inline > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) > > iD8DBQFAlgrPucbzqiAxJVkRAs/BAJ93EJEgQQ2q/LL0G2/sHO4hoD4uxACZAYzP > dPPehnxwwBAvTf5X+qwdqlI= > =R2vi > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > --QRj9sO5tAVLaXnSD-- >
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