From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 13 12:52:27 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA23176 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 12:52:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA23165 for ; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 12:52:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id VAA02737; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 21:52:15 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id VAA21239; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 21:52:14 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.4/8.6.9) id VAA12341; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 21:27:22 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199603132027.VAA12341@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Installing on >1024 cyl IDE drives To: partek@iquest.net (David Anderson) Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 21:27:22 +0100 (MET) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <31466FF0.73592E90@iquest.net> from "David Anderson" at Mar 13, 96 01:49:20 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)