From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat May 11 17:21:21 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA06982 for hardware-outgoing; Sat, 11 May 1996 17:21:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from optim.ism.net ([205.199.12.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA06977 for ; Sat, 11 May 1996 17:21:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from optim.ism.net (optim.ism.net [205.199.12.2]) by optim.ism.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id SAA26689; Sat, 11 May 1996 18:37:40 -0600 Date: Sat, 11 May 1996 18:37:39 -0600 (MDT) From: John-David Childs To: Russ Pagenkopf cc: hardware@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: disktab for Micropolis 4221-09/2112-15???? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hardware@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 10 May 1996, Russ Pagenkopf wrote: > You might try just letting FreeBSD find the info on it's own. Or is this > where it's choking? There aren't disktab entries for either the hard-drive > or the jaz drive (although I wrote one for the jaz drive that you're > welcome to for an example) and FreeBSD picked them up just fine. > > rus > It choked when trying to find the info on it's own. PFDISK.EXE (from the FreeBSD tools directory) came up with some really nutty values which didn't work either. However, when I used FDISK to create 1 megabyte DOS partitions on each drive, FreeBSD picked up the correct values from the BIOS. -- John-David Childs www.marsweb.com/www.ism.net System Administrator Internet Services Montana (406)721-6277 & Network Engineer M@RSWeb - Montana's PREMIER Web Site "I used up all my sick days...so I'm calling in dead"