Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1995 07:49:11 -0400 (EDT) From: ajh <ajh@iia.org> To: bugs@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD 2.0.5 Problem w/SyQuest Drive (fwd) Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.90.950921074522.18903A@iia.org>
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I originally sent this message to questions@freebsd.org. Please pardon my blunder. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 09:49:53 -0400 (EDT) From: ajh <ajh@iia.org> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD 2.0.5 Problem w/SyQuest Drive I have a SyQuest 3270A IDE hard disk cartridge drive that FreeBSD refuses to see correctly. There are two cartridge sizes that can be used with the drive: 256 MB (1024 cylinders, 16 heads, 32 sectors/track) Correct Geometry 105 MB ( 841 cylinders, 16 heads, 16 sectors/track) " FreeBSD insists on seeing them at twice their correct size: 512 MB (2048 cylinders, 16 heads, 32 sectors/track) Incorrect Geometry 210 MB ( 841 cylinders, 16 heads, 32 sectors/track) " I do not have this problem with DOS, Linux, or Coherent. Furthermore, the PFDISK program in the \TOOLS directory on the CD-ROM sees them correctly. I am certain that the problem does not lie with my system. My system is a Taiwanese model 419 486DX-33 VLB, with 13 MB RAM, DTC 2278E VLB Enhanced IDE controller with multi I/O, Seagate ST3491A 408 MB IDE hard disk drive (on which FreeBSD is installed), SyQuest 3270A IDE cartridge hard disk drive (the drive FreeBSD is not seeing correctly), Cirrus Logic 5420 SVGA with 1 MB RAM, and Mitsumi FX400 IDE CD-ROM drive. The motherboard uses the Opti 895 chipset and AMI 486 WinBIOS. I find this problem interesting, but I have not yet acquired enough skills to solve it myself. I don't even know where to start looking. I understand that FreeBSD is a complex system and do not wish to seem oblivious of that fact. I have bought the O'Reilly & Associates manual set along with a few books on system administration and UNIX programming, and find your system quite useful. I am intent on becoming a system administrator. Thanks for any help you can give. --Andre Holliday, A (mostly) satisfied customer P.S. Where in the source tree would I find the code for the wd driver?
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