Date: Wed, 10 May 1995 19:37:34 -0400 (EDT) From: Adam Iles <adam@epas.utoronto.ca> To: charnier@lirmm.fr (Philippe Charnier) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: WD disk (AC 31000) settings Message-ID: <199505102337.TAA09818@blues.epas.utoronto.ca> In-Reply-To: <199505101639.SAA12766@lirmm.lirmm.fr> from "Philippe Charnier" at May 10, 95 06:39:04 pm
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> Hello, > > I'm trying to install FreeBSD (last snapshot) on a AC 31000 disk > (200MB for dos, ~800MB for FreeBSD). The geometry is 2100 cyl, 16 > heads and 63 sectors, and translated to 525 cyl, 64 heads and 63 > sectors. > > FreeBSD is saying that it can not handle 64 heads and restore default > value (16). When newfs'ing first partition, there are a lot of errors > displayed in the primary screen: timeouts. > > wdstart: timeout waiting to give command writing fsbn 71679 ... I'm using one of these drives for DOS/FreeBSD without any problems. - Don't use the BOIS geometry translation - Make sure that the DOS partition and the BSDI root file system are all under cyl 1024. Freebsd will be happy with accessing the disk beyond cyl 1023, though the boot sector will only list up to that size for fdisk. > Thanks for any help. > -------- -------- > Philippe Charnier charnier@lirmm.fr > > > LIRMM, 161 rue Ada, 34392 Montpellier cedex 5 -- France > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Adam Iles -- EPAS Computing. adam@epas.utoronto.ca
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