Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 00:10:05 GMT From: Jan Slaets <jan@janot.if.sc.usp.br> To: freebsd-i386@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: i386/83425: fdisk can't read or write disklabel Message-ID: <200507150010.j6F0A57C094446@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR i386/83425; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Jan Slaets <jan@janot.if.sc.usp.br> To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org, jan@janot.ifsc.usp.br Cc: Subject: Re: i386/83425: fdisk can't read or write disklabel Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 21:07:45 -0300 <>A later Bios examination showed that the disk was defined in the Bios as being Cyl 19885 Head 16 Sec 63. Changing the disk geometry in the fdisk sysinstall FreeBSD 5.4 utility to this “new” value made the installation possible. Now I have however DMA sporadic access failures to ad0. I changed the motherboard, and with a “well behaved” BIOS (Head = 255) Now everything works.
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