Date: Sat, 10 Feb 1996 03:10:32 +0200 (EET) From: Heikki Suonsivu <hsu@clinet.fi> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans), hsu@clinet.fi, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD bugs list) Subject: Re: bin/984 Message-ID: <199602100110.DAA02269@katiska.clinet.fi> In-Reply-To: <199602090752.IAA15536@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <199602090336.OAA18315@godzilla.zeta.org.au> <199602090752.IAA15536@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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J. Wunsch writes:
> As Bruce Evans wrote:
>
> > > > (No, i'm not going to buy just another motherboard to see your
> > > > problems fixed. Even if i did -- i wouldn't had the problem in the
> > > > first place, or whaddaya think why i've been inventing the
> > > > ``dangerously dedicated'' mode? :)
> >
> > For ideological reasons.
>
> Not only. :) I've got too many complaints from industry users and
> other people running dedicated FreeBSD systems. Describing them that
> they first had to install something called DOS didn't make a good
> impression... and was not necessary.
>
> > With a geometry of 1 sector/track and 1 track/cylinder, anything larger
> > than 1MB will be above the 1024 cylinder mark.
>
> Hmm, we only support >= 15 sectors/track, the size of the bootstrap
> code (which is assumed to be on cylinder 0 head 0).
I got nnnnnnnn/1/1 geometry after swapping BT ISA controller to a NCR PCI
controller (any idea where does it figure out that one from?). After some
playing around, corrupting primary boot with suitable fdisk and then
reinstalling boot with disklabel and new 1003/64/32 geometry I got
everything working with NCR scsi controller with only minor damage (the
devices are now sd0x instead of sd0s1x). The other machine is more hairy
as it is supposed to have the /64/32 geometry according to fdisk and
disklabel, but I'll do more digging in couple of days.
Thanks for the ideas.
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