From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 17 10:48:03 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BAC816A41F for ; Wed, 17 Aug 2005 10:48:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dick@nagual.st) Received: from nagual.st (cc20684-a.assen1.dr.home.nl [82.74.2.254]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84A6143D45 for ; Wed, 17 Aug 2005 10:48:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dick@nagual.st) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (uid 1000) by nagual.st with local; Wed, 17 Aug 2005 12:48:01 +0200 id 00000024.430315E1.0000C35C Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 12:48:01 +0200 To: freebsd-questions Message-ID: <20050817104801.GA50000@lothlorien.nagual.st> References: <004101c5a30b$f76e5ce0$b80ba8c0@nagual.st> <430305AF.1050804@cs.tu-berlin.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <430305AF.1050804@cs.tu-berlin.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i From: Dick Hoogendijk Subject: Re: who's right? sysinstall or the bios X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 10:48:03 -0000 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