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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Install FreeBSD on EIDE Date: 7 Dec 1995 21:02:42 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 28 Message-ID: <4a7kpi$jns@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <49a6up$3db@masala.cc.uh.edu> <49jr5n$ili@uriah.heep.sax.de> <Pine.SUN.3.90.951205110117.4640D-100000@hurricane.cs.odu.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 Ragnar <bowden@cs.odu.edu> writes: > > (FreeBSD could handle up to 16 heads, 255 sectors, 64K cylinders. For > > a bootable disk, it's 16 heads, 63 sectors, 64K cylinders, since it > > must remain accessible for the BIOS. You can also say 31.5 GB.) > > Then why is it that i needed to go into my bios and set my hd from normal > to lba mode when I installed 2.0.5? 2.0 and earlier recognized my whole > drive (wd ac31000 1.083 G, smc promise eide controller) in normal mode, but > 2.0.5, and 2.1 will not? No idea. Many things have been changed between 2.0 and 2.0.5, in particular, sysinstall has been moved to libdisk. Please explain ``not recognized''. For mixed configurations: did you allocate your DOS partition before FreeBSD? For a FreeBSD-only disk, and 2.1R: did you attempt to use the non-DOS-compatible ``dangerously'' dedicated mode? [Use A)ll in the partition editor, but answer the next question with N)o.] -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)