Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 12:48:01 +0200 From: Dick Hoogendijk <dick@nagual.st> To: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: who's right? sysinstall or the bios Message-ID: <20050817104801.GA50000@lothlorien.nagual.st> In-Reply-To: <430305AF.1050804@cs.tu-berlin.de> References: <004101c5a30b$f76e5ce0$b80ba8c0@nagual.st> <430305AF.1050804@cs.tu-berlin.de>
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On 17 Aug Björn König wrote: > dick wrote: > > >So here's my dilemma: > > > >fbsd values: 30401/255/16 gives 238472MB (almost ok) > >bios values: 65535/255/16 gives 514072MB (totally wrong) > > > >What to do? > >Can the bios be so wrong? > >What must I do? > >The drive will also hold a copy of Win98se and WinXP/pro and I don't want > >any faults to happen by chosing the wrong values. > > Is the BIOS aware of handling large drives? (>128 GB) It's a brand new computer, so I'm pretty sure it does ;-) > I usually set the value to "auto" in the BIOS and I never had any > problems. I have that too, but freebsd's sysinstall warns me and chooses another more logical value. Could it be that the bios "works" with LBA while freebsd uses CHS ? -- dick -- http://nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 4.11-stable ++ FreeBSD 5.4 + Nai tiruvantel ar vayuvantel i Valar tielyanna nu vilja
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