From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Nov 17 04:03:42 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id EAA28217 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 17 Nov 1995 04:03:42 -0800 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id DAA27847 for ; Fri, 17 Nov 1995 03:54:31 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id MAA27590 for ; Fri, 17 Nov 1995 12:53:07 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id MAA03555 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Fri, 17 Nov 1995 12:53:06 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id MAA15932 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Fri, 17 Nov 1995 12:44:26 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199511171144.MAA15932@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: IDE/eIDE issues To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Fri, 17 Nov 1995 12:44:25 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199511170748.IAA26324@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> from "Christoph Kukulies" at Nov 17, 95 08:48:12 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 824 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)