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Date:      Sat, 02 Nov 2002 10:38:33 -0800
From:      walt <wa1ter@hotmail.com>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Unsucessful with 5.0-CURRENT Installation on a 120G IDE HDD
Message-ID:  <3DC41BA9.5080102@hotmail.com>
References:  <aq0iur$ftd$1@FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw>

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Hiten Pandya wrote:
> Hmm, OK.
> 
> Let me rephrase it all.
> 
> I have a 120G IDE disk, which is under LBA mode.  It is the second disk
> on my system.  I have been using it with my old (julyish) -current for a
> while now as a backup disk thingy.
> 
> My disk layout:
> 
> 	ad1s1: 8997MB  FreeBSD slice
> 	ad1s3: 50995MB FreeBSD slice
> 	ad1s2: 54478MB FAT32 slice

Here you are discussing ad1, which should (I think) be the slave drive
on the first IDE controller.


> This is how Sysinstall's fdisk reports it in 5.0-CURRENT-20021028.  The sizes
> are displayed correctly here, but when I try labeling the disk through
> sysinstall's Configure->Label, It shows:
> 
> Disk: ad3       Partition name: ad3s1   Free: 0 blocks (0MB)
> Disk: ad3       Partition name: ad3s3   Free: 102110549 blocks (49858MB)

Here you are discussing ad3, which should be the slave drive on the *second*
IDE controller.

Are you intending to discuss two different physical disks here?  I'm still
a bit confused.



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