Date: Fri, 17 Nov 1995 12:44:25 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: IDE/eIDE issues Message-ID: <199511171144.MAA15932@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199511170748.IAA26324@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> from "Christoph Kukulies" at Nov 17, 95 08:48:12 am
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As Christoph Kukulies wrote: > > > > > the simple way to get it to work:: > > > > install a dos partition on the drive > > (and nothing else) > > Do you mean it is required to do so? What if I don't have DOS? > (I assume you mean creating a DOS partition with DOS's FDISK) In 2.1, you can use the "dangerously dedicated" option. I've did this yesterday with an eighthundred something drive for a customer. > > the secret is to make sure that you give the > > geometry that the BIOS uses > > That drive has 1244/16/63. The drive certainly has something else. That's only what the vendor suggests as most common translation. (Mine was 16XX/16/63 btw.) -- 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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