From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Dec 18 11:16:20 1994 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id LAA08574 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 18 Dec 1994 11:16:20 -0800 Received: from ref.tfs.com (ref.tfs.com [140.145.254.251]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA08556 for ; Sun, 18 Dec 1994 11:16:15 -0800 Received: (from phk@localhost) by ref.tfs.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id LAA17840; Sun, 18 Dec 1994 11:16:11 -0800 From: Poul-Henning Kamp Message-Id: <199412181916.LAA17840@ref.tfs.com> Subject: Re: IDE Driver To: dbaker@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (Daniel A. Baker) Date: Sun, 18 Dec 1994 11:16:10 -0800 (PST) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Daniel A. Baker" at Dec 18, 94 12:57:36 pm Content-Type: text Content-Length: 522 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > 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. -- Poul-Henning Kamp TRW Financial Systems, Inc. FreeBSD has, until now, not one single time had an undetected error. :-)