Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2005 19:56:49 +0200 From: Pascal Groenen <pascal@blackwillow.giznet.com> To: "J. Nyhuis" <cabal@u.washington.edu>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ATA HDD installer issue Message-ID: <000801c583e6$6a1ab8a0$c701a8c0@venus> References: <Pine.A41.4.61b.0507081027050.302508@aagaard01.u.washington.edu>
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I noticed a similar thing with a similar HD. I went with the FreeBSD suggestion and it resulted in a corrupted HD. I would just go with the Disk/BIOS settings. I did that before for other disks and never had issues then. ----- Original Message ----- From: "J. Nyhuis" <cabal@u.washington.edu> To: <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 7:38 PM Subject: Q: ATA HDD installer issue > Greetings, > > I am installing FreeBSD 5.4 on a system using a Seagate Barracuda (Model > ST380011A) 80GB drive. This drive has 38297 cylinders, 16 heads, and 255 > sectors (this is identified both on a label on the drive and by the BIOS > IDE auto-detect). > The FreeBSD installer make it to the disk partitioning screen, and > produces an error stating that my drive parameters are wrong, and that I > should manually correct them. When I enter the parameters 38297/16/255 > (cylinders/heads/sectors), it tells me that the parameters are wrong and > refuses to take my input. > The hardware manual states that the drive parameters for fdisk should be > what is reported in the BIOS (which they are, in this case). > > Ideas? > > Thanks, > > John H. Nyhuis > Sr. Computer Specialist > Dept. of Pediatrics > HS RR349B, Box 356320 > University of Washington > Desk: (206)-685-3884 > cabal@u.washington.edu > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.8.11/44 - Release Date: 8-7-2005
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