Well, the FreeBSD default partition setting fails to complete a
format. It won't accept the 'real settings', and I can't seem to
figure out a way to force them. I'll have to poke about under advanced
install to see if it will let me force FDISK paremeters.
Thanks,
John H. Nyhuis
Sr. Computer Specialist
Dept. of Pediatrics
HS RR349B, Box 356320
University of Washington
Desk: (206)-685-3884
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On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, Pascal Groenen wrote:
I noticed a similar thing with a similar HD. I went with the FreeBSD
suggestion and it resulted in a corrupted HD. I would just go with the
Disk/BIOS settings. I did that before for other disks and never had issues
then.
----- Original Message ----- From: "J. Nyhuis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 7:38 PM
Subject: Q: ATA HDD installer issue
Greetings,
I am installing FreeBSD 5.4 on a system using a Seagate Barracuda (Model
ST380011A) 80GB drive. This drive has 38297 cylinders, 16 heads, and 255
sectors (this is identified both on a label on the drive and by the BIOS
IDE auto-detect).
The FreeBSD installer make it to the disk partitioning screen, and
produces an error stating that my drive parameters are wrong, and that I
should manually correct them. When I enter the parameters 38297/16/255
(cylinders/heads/sectors), it tells me that the parameters are wrong and
refuses to take my input.
The hardware manual states that the drive parameters for fdisk should be
what is reported in the BIOS (which they are, in this case).
Ideas?
Thanks,
John H. Nyhuis
Sr. Computer Specialist
Dept. of Pediatrics
HS RR349B, Box 356320
University of Washington
Desk: (206)-685-3884
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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