Date: Sun, 18 Dec 1994 19:10:05 -0600 (CST) From: "Daniel A. Baker " <dbaker@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IDE Driver Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.90.941218190921.28780A-100000@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> In-Reply-To: <199412181916.LAA17840@ref.tfs.com>
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On Sun, 18 Dec 1994, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > I talked to Scott Mace, and he told me what my problem is: > > > > The FreeBSD IDE driver dosen't appear to support the geometry of a IDE > > device that has a translated device with more that 32 heads... > > Wrong. FreeBSD has no problems doing this, but you must >TELL< it to. > During the install, in the Fdisk screen, use the (G)eometry function to > enter the geometry you want. Scott says thats what he tried... He said that the IDE driver just freaked and gave error messages when he did more than 32 heads.. -- Daniel Baker -- NeoSoft FTP/UseNet Administrator (713)531-8571 DBaker@NeoSoft.COM DBaker@UuNeo.NeoSoft.COM
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