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From: ngl1@psu.edu (Nicolas Leshock)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: WD 1GB EIDE Hard Drive Partitioning Problems
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 1995 05:59:20 GMT
Organization: Penn State University, Center for Academic Computing
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From: Nicolas G Leshock <leshock@cse.psu.edu>
To: ngl1@psu.edu
Subject: post
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 1995 11:04:32 -0500
I am desperately looking for some help with my installation. I have a
Micron P90 powerstation with a western digital 31000 hard disk. I have
installed OS2warp and used it's fdisk utility to set up the hard disk as
follows:
2 MB - OS2 Boot Manager (nice program)
300 MB - BSD Partition
250 MB - DOS Primary Partition
250 MB - OS2 in extended FAT partition
remainder - extended FAT Partition
The problem I am having is that my BSD installation floppy tells me:
wd0: can't handle 64 heads from partition table
and I get a subsequent error after I (P)roceed after disklabeling:
wd0e: wdstart: timeout waiting to give command writing fsbn 64
of 64-79 (wd0 bn 110592, cn 27, tn 27, sn 27) wd0: status 0 error 1 (no_dam)
I assume this is due to a config program used by OS2 to remap the number of
heads to 64 to reduce the number of cylinders under 1024. If I use the BSD
fdisk to set up the partitions, I can't format or fdisk the remaining
partitions because it doesn't recognize the drive.
Is there any way to set up a 300 MB partition for BSD (anywhere on the disk) and
also use 32bit access with OS/2 and Windows? I sure hope so.
Can I put the BSD partition anywhere on the disk and have the boot manager
start it up? (BIOS under 1024 to boot issue)
I appreciate in advance any help offered! I've about worn out my disk with
this repartitioning/reformating.
Forgive my ignorance - I'm desperate! Have a nice day!
Nick Leshock