From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 29 10:26:15 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id KAA29753 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 29 Apr 1995 10:26:15 -0700 Received: from galois.nscf.org (Galois.nscf.org [192.48.117.201]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id KAA29728 for ; Sat, 29 Apr 1995 10:26:09 -0700 Received: by galois.nscf.org with UUCP (5.67/1.2) id AA19198; Sat, 29 Apr 95 12:35:22 -0400 Received: by wa4phy.ASYNC.COM (5.65/Smail2.5/02-15-88) id AA29182; Sat, 29 Apr 95 12:41:51 -0400 Received: (from bao@localhost) by saigon.async.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id MAA00363; Sat, 29 Apr 1995 12:41:17 -0400 Date: Sat, 29 Apr 1995 12:41:17 -0400 (EDT) From: Bao Chau Ha To: questions@FreeBSD.org Cc: install@FreeBSD.org Subject: 950412-SNAP Installation with ESDI (WD1007V) System Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk How do I install 950412-SNAP on a system with a WD1007V ESDI controller and 2 drives: Maxtor XT4380E (320M) and Maxtor XT4760E (630M)? It is very annoying that the driver gets the true disk geometries directly from the ESDI controller and use them instead of the translated ones. It also ignores the spare sector mapping, so it does not help, even if I reformat my drives. Anyway, I did fdisk, added the translated geometry and was able to complete the installation from the boot and cpio floppies onto the first drive. Upon reboot, the kernel went up to the npx16 ... messages, then printed out a message about wrong size on partition d of wd1, which does not have a freebsd partition. It then panicked, and rebooted. Appreciate any helps, comments or suggestions. Thanks. Bao -- Bao Chau Ha (bao@saigon.async.com) Nuclear chemical engineer by day, Linux hacker by night and weekends.