Date: Wed, 10 Apr 96 21:35:47 From: jim.williams@bbs.hal-pc.org To: questions@freeBSD.org Subject: Promise EIDE2300 Message-ID: <9604102135.0UC7R01@bbs.hal-pc.org>
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Ok, another can I question.
The reason for this question is that I tried 3 times with an earlier
version of FreeBSD (1.5 I think) and it trashed my partition table,
causing loss of some software. (I'm not blaming you or yelling at you,
just want to be cautious this time).
Following is my dos fdisk and your install fdisk editor partition info
dos FDISK
Partition Status Type Vol Mbytes System Usage
C:1 A PRIDOS DISK1 169 FAT16 16%
F:2 PRIDOS 152 unknown 15%
3 EXTDOS 715 69%
LOGICAL DOS DRIVE INFO
Drv Vol Mbytes System Usage
D: 350 FAT16 49%
E: 364 FAT16 51%
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FDISK Partition Editor
DISK name: wd0
Disk Geometry: 527 cyls/64 heads/63 sectors
OFFSET SIZE END NAME ptype Desc Subtype Flags
0 63 62 - 6 unused 0
63 346689 346751 wd0s1 2 Fat 6
346752 310464 657215 wd0s3 2 Fat 6
657215 1463616 2120831 wd0s2 4 extended 5
2120832 1467056 2127887 - 6 unused 0
with the last line being highlighted
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The drive is a Fujitsu M1606TA and the controller is a Promise EIDE2300.
Using on a 486DX40.
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I don't know what of this info may be of use to you, so sent everything
that I thought you may need to know.
The QUESTION:
Since I don't have a tape backup system at present, would you recommend
trying to install FreeBSD on F drive (which I have not formatted and set
aside for unix), or should I backup all I can and re-partition my hard
drive? (takes a lot of floppies to backup that amount of data!) Any
special tips?
Sub question:
Can I set this up to boot from floppy? It seems the MBR was what was
wiping my partition table (even dos fdisk would not recognize it).
You may imagine that after 3 wipe's of the partition, I am a little
nervous about using an MBR.
Any help to get FreeBSD up and running would be greatly appreciated (I
don't want to have to go to Linux, unless you recommend it!) :-)
E-mail for me is: jim.williams@bbs.hal-pc.org
(that's where I first encountered FreeBSD, as a net server!)
Jim Williams
Magnolia, Tx.
04/10/96 6:49PM
þ CMPQwk 1.42 208 þWhen in doubt, duck. - Malcolm Forbes
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