Date: Sat, 28 Jan 95 13:27:24 EST From: fcawth@squid.umd.edu (Fred Cawthorne) To: jkh@FreeBSD.org (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: hoppy@appsmiths.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: >1024 cyl IDE drive Message-ID: <9501281827.AA01957@squid.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <26952.791229051@time.cdrom.com>; from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jan 27, 95 9:50 am
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> > You're saying that these bootblock-remapping drives fall over kicking > when you install the boot manager? Aieee! I can't say we weren't warned > about this.. Or does this not have anything to do with the boot block? > > Jordan > Ummm... Why can't you just rewrite the MBR with fdisk or something?? I just installed a 1 gig Western Digital drive, and indeed Ontrack Disk manager does write some stuff into the MBR... The bios has the real parameters in it, so I would guess if this boot code wasn't there, you could just use the real ones with the usual >1024 cyl. precautions. I didn't check if the translator thingie was installed on the drive right out of the package, but I would guess it wasn't. If you install a small dos partition, and then try to install FreeBSD, then I would imagine it would choke when the MBR is overwritten by the boot selector... ): There should be a section in the install notes about these drives.. Fred.
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