Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 21:27:22 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: partek@iquest.net (David Anderson) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing on >1024 cyl IDE drives Message-ID: <199603132027.VAA12341@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <31466FF0.73592E90@iquest.net> from "David Anderson" at Mar 13, 96 01:49:20 am
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As David Anderson wrote: (restricted to -questions only, though keep in mind that i'm not on this list) > I'm trying to install FreeBSD on a P90 with 2 1.5GB Western Digital > drives. I keep getting errors to the effect of that it's not able to > write to the HD or something. I have the drive geometry set the same as > it is in the BIOS, and have LBA shut off. I had FreeBSD installed on the > system perfectly with LBA on, but once the install was done and it went > to reboot, the drives refused to initialize during the BIOS check.. Shut > LBA off and they're working again, but I'm running into this problem > now.. Anyone have a clue? What's your BIOSes idea of the geometries with and without LBA? -- 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. ;-)
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