Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 21:05:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Vincent Poy <vince@venus.GAIANET.NET> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: FreeBSD w/ 7 GIG Maxtor IDE HD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971021210103.259D-100000@venus.GAIANET.NET>
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Greetings everyone, Today I attempted to install FreeBSD on a Maxtor 7 GIG EIDE Hard Drive but was unsuccessful. With the drive plugged in, FreeBSD probes the drive as 14475 cylinders, 8207 Heads, and 8255 Sectors per track while the drive and the BIOS has it as 14475 cylinders, 15 Heads, and 63 sectors per track. With the drive plugged in, the FreeBSD boot disk never made it to the sysinstall menu but just hung there until I booted without the drive attached. I have tried 4 of the same drives from different vendors and it still gave me the same problem. Has anyone actually used this drive with FreeBSD successfully or what's the largest make/model of IDE drive that people have used successfully with FreeBSD? Thanks in advance. Cheers, Vince - vince@MCESTATE.COM - vince@GAIANET.NET ________ __ ____ Unix Networking Operations - FreeBSD-Real Unix for Free / / / / | / |[__ ] GaiaNet Corporation - M & C Estate / / / / | / | __] ] Beverly Hills, California USA 90210 / / / / / |/ / | __] ] HongKong Stars/Gravis UltraSound Mailing Lists Admin /_/_/_/_/|___/|_|[____]
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