Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 21:42:40 -0500 From: Len Huppe <huppe@execpc.com> To: Reinoud Koornstra <Reinoud.Koornstra@ibbnet.nl> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: loosing hope here.... Message-ID: <378E9C20.AADE7E50@execpc.com> References: <3.0.6.32.19990715213001.0083c770@ux1.ibbnet.nl>
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Sounds to me like you have a compatibility issue. Have you tried going into
the BIOS of your system and changing the translation mode to DMA for the drive
in question? As for that drive having 65K heads on it, that's just a
translator trying to make the BIOS on your system see the drive. The authors
of FreeBSD had to do that because of the brain-dead way that PC BIOS systems
work. There are three modes that thess translators work in: normal, large, and
LBA. You will most likely need to use LBA.
good luck
Len
> Wel... finally, i low-level formatted my drive with a program i got from
> WD, i have a wd harddisk.
> But still sysinstall crashes on wd3, he says that he read 65556 heads and
> so on from the partition table,....??????
> Impossible! Anyway, i send you the mail before but i dont understand why it
> was possible to install fbsd the first time without problems of sysinstall
> crashing, i tryed the same things i did back then, but nothing works.... i
> really dont like it.
> At this moment, it seems that this is the end of freebsd for me!!!
> Really i hate that, linux has no problems, linux just partitions the disk
> and works with it, but i dont want to work with linux!
> Really, i think we got a weak point of freebsd crashing, why does linux
> read the disk well and bsd crashes on it? (that is sysinstall crashes!)
> Can anyone tell me what i can do about this?
> Is there any, any way to install bsd now if sysinstall keeps crashing. If
> this keeps beging so, i will have to switch to openbsd i am afraid, that
> install just fine like linux.. Does anybody ever had the same problem?
> Sincerely,
>
> Reinoud.
>
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