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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!news.cs.indiana.edu!usenet.ucs.indiana.edu!pi From: pi@indiana.edu (Raymond L. Gilbert) Subject: Re: New disklabel not working? 256 heads????? Message-ID: <CwFytE.B2D@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> Sender: news@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: xyplex4-2-1.ucs.indiana.edu Reply-To: pi@nickel.ucs.indiana.edu Organization: A FreeBSD Enthusiast References: <GILBERT.94Sep19150356@hydra1c.cs.utk.edu> Date: Tue, 20 Sep 1994 18:46:26 GMT Lines: 23 Thus it was recorded by the prophets, gilbert@cs.utk.edu (Steve Gilbert) said: >I just bought a new Connor IDE disk. I get this error at boot time: > >wd1: can't handle 256 heads from partition table (controller value 16 restored) WOW! Someone else has finally seen this error! :-) I have a Connor CFA340A IDE disk, and ever since the day I installed FreeBSD 1.0 I've had this problem. I used it like that for months, and it seemed to work fine because the controller value was restored. The problem came during the install procedure when fdisk wrote the partition table. I wiped my hard drive out and reran the install procedure several times--it always wrote to my parition table that I had 256 heads. So I did the only thing I could do--I used 'fdisk -i' to rewrite the partition table to tell it, dammit, it only has 16 heads. WARNING: I don't think it needs to be said, but just in case... rewriting one's partition table is an excellent way to lose all your data on your hard drive, so take appropriate precautions or pay the consequences. :-) -- /----------------------------------------------------------------------------\ | Raymond L. Gilbert | "...the present rule in computing the circle's | | pi@indiana.edu | area is entirely wrong..." | | IUB Dept. of Physics | - Bill No. 246, Indiana State Legislature, 1897| \----------------------------------------------------------------------------/