From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 9 01:16:11 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id BAA07231 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 9 Dec 1995 01:16:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA07225 for ; Sat, 9 Dec 1995 01:16:06 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id CAA01608; Sat, 9 Dec 1995 02:12:46 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199512090912.CAA01608@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Western Digital boot failures To: dpk@eskimo.com (David Kirchner) Date: Sat, 9 Dec 1995 02:12:46 -0700 (MST) Cc: howard@genome.stanford.edu, dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "David Kirchner" at Dec 8, 95 06:18:17 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > 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.