From owner-freebsd-stable Mon May 17 0: 4:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from obsidian.noc.dfn.de (obsidian.noc.dfn.de [193.174.247.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F3471552F for ; Mon, 17 May 1999 00:04:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from schweikh@obsidian.noc.dfn.de) Received: (from schweikh@localhost) by obsidian.noc.dfn.de (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA29192; Mon, 17 May 1999 09:03:38 +0200 (MET DST) From: Jens Schweikhardt Message-Id: <199905170703.JAA29192@obsidian.noc.dfn.de> Subject: Re: disk error To: rnordier@nordier.com (Robert Nordier) Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 09:03:38 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: adepoo@tamnet.com.mx, stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199905162119.XAA03812@ceia.nordier.com> from "Robert Nordier" at May 16, 99 11:19:10 pm Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hello, world\n # > I have the following error at boot up # > # > Disk error 0x1 (lba=0x299cd0) # > No /boot/loader # > # > If I reformat to use ALL the disk for FreeBSD (no 62 sectors at front) # > then this error don't show. # > # > I need to have one FreeBSD partition and one DOS partition in this disk. # > # > The same error show with a couple of other disks, all of them Seagate # > Medallist IDE (one is 8GB and the other 2 4GB) # # A disk error 0x1 indicates that at attempt was made to read above disk # cylinder 1023 using the BIOS. That's an interesting and helpful bit of information. Is there enough room in that particular stage to print a message to this effect? Even if 0x1 is not guaranteed to be caused by exceeding the cyl limit, a hint like "Disk error 0x1 (lba=0x299cd0), may be caused by read beyond cyl 1023" With disks getting bigger almost everyday and BIOS limits cast in stone I expect this type of error becoming ubiquitous soon... Regards, Jens -- Jens Schweikhardt http://www.shuttle.de/schweikh/ SIGSIG -- signature too long (core dumped) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message