Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 18:05:23 +0200 From: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely12.cicely.de> To: Jean-Francois Gobin <gobin@gobinjf.be> Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FBSD 4.9 on AlphaServer 1000a/400 Message-ID: <20040519160523.GX70900@cicely12.cicely.de> In-Reply-To: <20040519130709.Q77039@ns> References: <005c01c43d21$d6c3ae60$6a0aa8c0@sassie.net> <20040519130709.Q77039@ns>
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On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 01:07:44PM +0200, Jean-Francois Gobin wrote: > Hmmmm ... > > Can you compare the geometry values as given by Redhat and by the > partitionning tool of freebsd ? This is not a PC => no Geomtry hassles. > On Tue, 18 May 2004, M Gollihue wrote: > > > Hello, all! > > > > I am trying to install FreeBSD 4.9 on an AlphaServer 1000a/400/256Mb. It > > gets through the initial configuration just fine, however, upon getting to > > the place where it attempts to download from FTP...it downloads the first 10 > > blocks of the distribution then stops. The error message on VTY2 says > > "Attempt to write beyond the end of the drive." Either your partition really is larger than the drive or there are issues with your mylex. > > I have a Mylex 960 card with two 9Gb drives attached, partitioned 6Gb > > data/1Gb swap/1Gb temp. Anyone else experience this problem? The system > > works fine under Red Hat. AFAIK the 960 can't handle drives with sizes greater than 8G and some firmware revisions even with drives >2G, but I'm not shure with it. Have this drives ever been in use with this controller? -- B.Walter BWCT http://www.bwct.de bernd@bwct.de info@bwct.de
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