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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!news.kei.com!ddsw1!not-for-mail From: jal@MCS.COM (John A. LaCour III) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: New disklabel not working? 256 heads????? Date: 19 Sep 1994 17:10:02 -0500 Organization: /usr/lib/news/organi[sz]ation Lines: 29 Message-ID: <35l27q$d8l@Mercury.mcs.com> References: <GILBERT.94Sep19150356@hydra1c.cs.utk.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: mercury.mcs.com In article <GILBERT.94Sep19150356@hydra1c.cs.utk.edu>, Steve Gilbert <gilbert@cs.utk.edu> wrote: >a new Connor IDE disk to daisy-chain with my other one. >I got the disklabel and eveything done fine. The disk >is partitioned correctly and all the filesystems are there >and accessible. There's just one funny thing. I get this >error at boot time: > >wd1: can't handle 256 heads from partition table >(controller value 16 restored) > >...what could be causing this? The disk has 16 heads, so the "controller >value" is correct and everything works fine. Why would it be initially >looking for 256 heads? No disk on the planet has 256 heads. I've >checked everything I can imagine.../etc/disktab...output from "disklabel"... >the BIOS settings...nothing ever mentions the number 256 in relation >to anything. Does anyone have any ideas? Any help would be greatly >appreciated. Funny, I'm having the exact same problem. I'm using a maxtor 213a drive (IDE) however. My problems are more sever in that when this happens init dies and I get panics and dumps that never end. I have to start the install all over again. I had FBSD 1.1.5 running fine on one IDE drive, but I can't get it installed with two. Any help gratefully appreciated. John