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Date:      Wed, 13 Mar 1996 21:27:22 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        partek@iquest.net (David Anderson)
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Installing on >1024 cyl IDE drives
Message-ID:  <199603132027.VAA12341@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <31466FF0.73592E90@iquest.net> from "David Anderson" at Mar 13, 96 01:49:20 am

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As David Anderson wrote:

(restricted to -questions only, though keep in mind that i'm not on
this list)

> I'm trying to install FreeBSD on a P90 with 2 1.5GB Western Digital
> drives. I keep getting errors to the effect of that it's not able to
> write to the HD or something. I have the drive geometry set the same as
> it is in the BIOS, and have LBA shut off. I had FreeBSD installed on the
> system perfectly with LBA on, but once the install was done and it went
> to reboot, the drives refused to initialize during the BIOS check.. Shut
> LBA off and they're working again, but I'm running into this problem
> now.. Anyone have a clue? 

What's your BIOSes idea of the geometries with and without LBA?

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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