Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 12:38:58 -0500 From: The Classiest Man Alive <ksmm@threespace.com> To: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Booting from large EIDE drive Message-ID: <Version.32.19990225122925.00dfe980@mail.cybercom.net>
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I recently purchased an 8.4 GB IBM EIDE hard drive. I wanted to install OS/2, Linux, and FreeBSD on it, but I can't find a way to boot from the partitions at the end of the drive because of the geometry of it. I've tried setting the drive up for LBA in the BIOS, I've tried changing the drive's geometry using disk utilities (like fdisk), I've even tried different boot utilities (IBM's Boot Manager, System Commander, etc.) all to no avail. __________________________ Have I encountered a limitation of EIDE hard drives larger than 8.4 GB? (My understanding is that they all use the same geometry beyond that point. Perhaps that cannot be changed?) Is it possibly a deficiency of the IBM drives or my system's BIOS that prevents it from being able to do this? For instance, would a Maxtor or Quantum or WD EIDE drive have the same problems? (I'm also under the impression that some of the logic for this sector translation resides within the hard drive itself.) Am I doing something wrong? Missing something? If I bought a big (i.e., >9 GB) SCSI drive, would I have these same problems? ___________________________ Many thanks in advance for any help...especially if it saves me money. ;-) K.S. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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