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Subject: Re: ad driver problems and 4.0-RELEASE
From: Drew Linsalata <dlinsalata@mac.com>
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Actually, I'll probably just take the box down to one of our DS-3 POPs and
just install a different version via FTP.  The box is brand new, so updating
via CVSup is not an option, is it?

- Drew

> From: Christoph Sold <christoph.sold@server.i-clue.de>
> Organization: i-clue interactive
> Reply-To: christoph.sold@server.i-clue.de
> Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 12:30:26 +0100
> To: Drew Linsalata <dlinsalata@mac.com>
> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: ad driver problems and 4.0-RELEASE
> 
> 
> 
> Drew Linsalata schrieb:
>> 
>> 1.3.2001
>> 
>> I'm seeing a slew of posts archived at DejaNews concerning the exact problem
>> I am seeing installing 4.0-RELEASE with two WD 15.3GB EIDE drives.  The
>> disks and IDE controllers are detected at boot time, and fdisk seems to read
>> the drive geometry correctly, but I cannot newfs (either manually or via
>> sysinstall) as I am confronted with "slice extends beyond end of disk" and
>> "slice starts beyond end of disk" errors.
>> 
>> I've tried all BIOS settings LBA, large, manual, etc. for these drives, but
>> no luck.
>> 
>> Has anyone found a fix for this, should I just bite the bullet and order a
>> new set of CDs?
> 
> Alternatively, you may just CVSup and make upgrade. Been there, done
> that: Three to four hours over a 56k modem line. Remember:
> /usr/src/UPDATING is your friend.
> 
> HTH
> -Christoph Sold



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