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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!lynx.aba.net.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!in-news.erinet.com!ddsw1!news.mcs.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!hunter.premier.net!news1.erols.com!news From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: ESDI sectors/cyl vs disk label :( Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 19:45:19 +0000 Organization: Erol's Internet Services Lines: 39 Message-ID: <3241A2CF.540B@www.play-hookey.com> References: <51rsdk$61j@cibnor2.cibnor.conacyt.mx> Reply-To: kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; U) Larry Miller [DT] wrote: > > 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. > Just a couple of points. First, with a motherboard that old, the BIOS may be having problems with a large drive. (Maybe not :-) ). In any case, try the LBA model, with <1024 cylinders. All of my installations of 2.1R had problems otherwise. I hope this helps! -- Ken Are you interested in | byte-sized education | http://www.play-hookey.com over the Internet? |