Date: Sat, 9 Dec 1995 02:12:46 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: dpk@eskimo.com (David Kirchner) Cc: howard@genome.stanford.edu, dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Western Digital boot failures Message-ID: <199512090912.CAA01608@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.951208181700.1206B-100000@eskimo.com> from "David Kirchner" at Dec 8, 95 06:18:17 pm
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> I didn't think I should be, Ontrack is DOS software for one thing I > think, and also I have an EIDE controller. It said in the docs somewhere > (at least I thought) that Ontrack is for people who have IDE cards and > want to be able to use EIDE drives or something like that, sort of a > level above normal 'fdisk' can do. OnTrack does geometry translation and translated C/H/S to lba for EIDE drives. Mostly it's for budgo controllers, which is to say 99% of IDE controllers, which are too stupid to translate geometry on their own. If you can boot off a DOS boot floppy and run FDISK and see your DOS partitions (or cd to the C: drive) then you aren't running OnTrack. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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