John Baldwin wrote:
Sectors more than 63 are not allowed for IDE drives at all. What happens when you use the LBA geometry? Does the drive not boot properly after being installed?
Well, I did try LBA as well, but couldn't boot at all. boot2 did let me look at the root directory, but any further investigation (like trying 0:da(0,a)/boot/? ) produced junk and/or killed boot2. The Windows partition also didn't boot.
Btw. according to http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/bios/modesECHS-c.html the CHS parameters *are* within limits of the IDE/ATA standard; the "Large" mode is off limits since it can't get the Cylinder cound below 1024 without exceeding the max Heads. *sigh* what a mess :-) /step -- stephan mantler reality is in fact virtual. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://step.schmelzweb.at/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
