Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 14:15:25 -0400 (EDT) From: Caleb Land <bokonon@rochester.rr.com> To: Jeremy Scheer <jeremy@mecca.servint.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Western Digital Drives... Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10008241405400.5007-100000@deepthought.granfalloon.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.4.05L.10008241325180.11607-100000@mecca.servint.com>
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Hello, I have experienced similar problems trying to install freeBSD on my drive (WD 6GB). I would set everything up correctly, and then it would complain about making the slices. What I did to get around it (which might not be an option for you) is to lowlevel format the drive, and install freebsd on it first (before, I was trying to install freebsd on it with linux on the first partition). I am not sure if the numbers were changing like that, but I do know that in my case for some unknown reason, freebsd had to be the first OS put on a clean drive (now BeOS lives on a small second partition). I think linux might have mangled something with the H/C/S setting, though I'm not an expert on such things, so I don't want to blame anyone for something that they couldn't have done. I believe that they (linux and fbsd) are incompatible because when I run linux fdisk on the freebsd drive, it complains about the drive having the wrong settings. I just noticed that I mixed up the use of ``slice'' and ``partition,'' switch them in the above post. Sincerely, Caleb Land (bokonon@rochester.rr.com) On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, Jeremy Scheer wrote: > > > Hi there... > > I'm trying to install FreeBSD 4 on a Western Digital WD102AA. It's an LBA > drive, the BIOS on the motherboard in LBA-compatible. > > The problem I'm having is, whenever I try to write slices, the parameters > at the top of the screen are getting bumped to 1247/26/63, even after I > change the geometry to fit the drive. In turn, I can't write the BSD > partitions to the disk. I keep on clocking errors that the system can't > write due to invalid configurations. The drive is fine - I've installed > 2K, 98 on it no problem. > > I noticed on your website under the "installation procedures" part there's > a screen shot of an fdisk of a Western Digital drive with the exact same > parameters as mine. The irony was overwhelming. :) > > Any ideas? I've searched your site and can't seem to come up with a viable > solution to this issue. Could you point me in the right direction? Any > help would be greatly appreciated. > > Jeremy Scheer > Engineer > Servint > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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