Date: Tue, 11 Apr 1995 17:05:52 -0400 (EDT) From: Pat_Barron@transarc.com To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: More on Maxtor 7850 AV problem .... Message-ID: <gjWiwkqSMV1b9=eQZs@transarc.com>
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Well, I did manage to get this working, finally. First, I just lied to the CMOS and told it that the geometry was 1023 (instead of 1654) cyl, 63 sec, 16 heads; figured that giving it the true geometry didn't matter, as long as I told it the correct number of sectors/track and heads. Then I brought up DOS from a floppy and ran FDISK to create a DOS MBR on the disk. Then I installed without writing out the boot manager; the system boots just fine using the bootstrap that FDISK puts on the disk. Thanks for all the replies. --Pat.
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