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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!garlic.com!news.scruz.net!noos.hooked.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!enews.sgi.com!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in3.uu.net!cibnor!cibnor!lmiller From: lmiller@cibnor.cibnor.conacyt.mx (Larry Miller [DT]) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: ESDI sectors/cyl vs disk label :( Date: 19 Sep 1996 16:29:40 GMT Organization: Centro de Investigaciones Biologicas Lines: 29 Message-ID: <51rsdk$61j@cibnor2.cibnor.conacyt.mx> NNTP-Posting-Host: cet-1.cibnor.conacyt.mx X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Hi, folks-- After a couple of days trying to install FreeBSD on a machine that I thought would be a piece of cake, I'm about to tear my hair out. Help! 386-20 w/coprocessor, Herc monochrome, 16m RAM, 340m (Micropolis?) ESDI drive, Ultrastor (12?) ESDI controller, 3C509 combo NIC. The drive is ESDI, 1780 cyl, 7 heads, 54 sec/track, 512b/s. The controller has options for sector mapping to 17,32, or 63 sectors and/or 1024 cyl truncation. Installing from boot floppies over NFS. I've tried installation without any drive mapping, with 63 sector mapping, with/without cylinder truncation. During startup probes, the controller is recognized as WD0 and the correct physical disk geometry is displayed. Inevitably, I get partway into the installation and get the warning message that the calculated sectors/cylinder (some number) disagree with disk label (some lesser number), that the drive is 32 megabytes (hmm?), and after a while the installation crashes. Obviously it's difficult to evaluate this without systematic data, but what would help a lot would be if someone could tell me WHERE the installation routines get the numbers that are disagreeing, and how we can convince them to agree? Would very much appreciate ANY insight-- this has me totally baffled. Thanks-- Larry Larry Miller Administrador de Redes / Network Administrator Centro de Investigaciones Biologicas del Noroeste, La Paz, BCS Mexico