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 th
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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
n 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:
Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 7:38 PM
Subject: Q: ATA HDD installer issue
Greetings,
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
Kevin Oberman wrote:
Don't forget that any "modern" BIOS and HD will be using LBA, not CHS,
for addressing the disk and disks have not had the same number of
sectors per track on all cylinders for a long time, so the numbers are
bogus in any case. CHS does not allow properly addressing any
moder
