Date: Mon, 13 Mar 1995 18:08:24 -0800 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@estienne.CS.Berkeley.EDU> To: Joe Lowe <jlowe@fly.HiWAAY.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Can't install file system Message-ID: <199503140208.SAA00954@estienne.cs.berkeley.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 13 Mar 1995 20:03:40 CST." <Pine.3.89.9503131948.A3063-0100000@fly.HiWAAY.net>
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> > >On Mon, 13 Mar 1995, Justin T. Gibbs wrote: > > >> Hey! I wrote the driver for that card. ;-) I hope it will work for you >> once we get the geometry issue fixed for you. >> > >Well, nice try but no ceegar... BSD seemed to know about the extended >translation of 255 heads, 63 sectors. I just used the default values BSD >suggested, which were correct. I still got the same error code. > >It's not looking too good is it? I think another nuke is in my future... > >The manual says not ot use extended translation with multiple partitions, >I guess there must be a reason. :-) > >I will wait until I hear from you before I do the deed. > >Thanks, >Joe This is with 2.0R or the 2.0-950210-SNAP? You are probably running into the problem that newfs doesn't allocate large enough cylinder groups for a drive with that type of translation. If you are trying the SNAP, then I guess a nuke is in your future, but I know of at least two people who have doen this sucessfully under SNAP. -- Justin T. Gibbs ============================================== TCS Instructional Group - Programmer/Analyst 1 Cory | Po | Danube | Volga | Parker | Torus ==============================================
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