From owner-freebsd-bugs Wed Jul 12 03:34:09 1995 Return-Path: bugs-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id DAA29946 for bugs-outgoing; Wed, 12 Jul 1995 03:34:09 -0700 Received: from spsgate.sps.mot.com (spsgate.sps.mot.com [192.70.231.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id DAA29940 for ; Wed, 12 Jul 1995 03:34:05 -0700 Received: from mogate (mogate.sps.mot.com) by spsgate.sps.mot.com (4.1/SMI-4.1/Email 2.1 10/25/93) id AA03271 for bugs@FreeBSD.org; Wed, 12 Jul 95 03:34:03 MST Received: from emailmesa by mogate (4.1/SMI-4.1/Email-2.0) id AA08035; Wed, 12 Jul 95 03:34:02 MST Message-Id: <9507121034.AA08035@mogate> Date: 12 Jul 1995 05:35:04 U From: "Richard Shott" Subject: Hard drive woos To: "bugs report" Sender: bugs-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Reply to: Hard drive woos I have a serious problem that I am trying to work around. I have the FreeBSD 2.0 CD from walnut creekand am attempting to install it. I had a problem with the geometry of the ahrd drive and the fdisk utility. When booting BSD recognized the hard disk as a Conner 1278MB on an IDE channel, it even read the proper BIOS numbers 2477 cyl., 16 heads, and 63 sectors/track. After many troubles I get the same problem Fdisk always attempts to start the harddrive as a 64head device. I have been trying to fix this, and you have no idea how hard. Also the bootstrap you sent did not work. I have figured out how to load the coherent bootstrap which runs like a charm. At one point in time the hard drive was locked, and I this was partially due to an error on my part when I miswrote a partition table that I had not defined. It saved the rest to the 'd' slice. Currently the boot disk runs through the check system and then creates this error: fd0c:hard error feading fsbn 16 of 16-31 (ST0 40 ST1 1 ST2 0 cyl0 hd0 sec17 panic cannot mount root like I had said this my be a partition table problem that I am trying to remedy. Any comments would be greatly appreicated. Also does this version of BSD support LBA? Or should I leave it off. Thanx for the support I am looking forward to the reply. BTW this is not a fast method of communication for me as the account I have is often only read on the weekends. Rick