From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Dec 18 22:46:15 1994 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id WAA00909 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 18 Dec 1994 22:46:15 -0800 Received: from godzilla.zeta.org.au (godzilla.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.34]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) with ESMTP id WAA00903 for ; Sun, 18 Dec 1994 22:46:06 -0800 Received: (from bde@localhost) by godzilla.zeta.org.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id RAA21864; Mon, 19 Dec 1994 17:42:56 +1100 Date: Mon, 19 Dec 1994 17:42:56 +1100 From: Bruce Evans Message-Id: <199412190642.RAA21864@godzilla.zeta.org.au> To: dbaker@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM, phk@ref.tfs.com Subject: Re: IDE Driver Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >> > 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.. There are several reasons why it won't work with more than 16 heads. To get it to work you must tell the BIOS to use a geometry with <= 16 heads and more cylinders, and put DOS and the BSD root partition below cylinder 1024. Bruce