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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!uunet!not-for-mail From: goltz@mimi.UU.NET (James P. Goltz) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Installing to partitions Date: 28 Jul 1993 09:42:01 -0400 Organization: UUNET Technologies Inc, Falls Church, VA, USA Lines: 30 Message-ID: <235vnaINNci0@mimi.UU.NET> References: <1993Jul14.222759.11004@a.cs.okstate.edu> <1993Jul20.203847.21011@prepress.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: mimi.uu.net In article <1993Jul20.203847.21011@prepress.com>, Bob Costa <costa@benton.prepress.com> wrote: > >I've had the same problem. I just found out however that my 7120at >maxtor drive does do sector translation. Which is something which needs >to be turned off apparently. I am going to try to reformat my drive with >it off tonight. If it works i'll post. I think this may be at the heart of my recent (failed) attempt to install NetBSD. Can a kind person tell me: 1) What is the proper procedure for telling NetBSD not to overwrite the partition table? (I assume it's when it asks "Overwrite DOS partition table", but I like being paranoid. :-) ) 2) Which Maxtor drives do sector translation, and how does one turn it off and/or get NetBSD to work correctly with it on? (I believe mine's a 7245, but I don't have it here.) 3) I had a lot of trouble getting the partition table back the way it was, and I'm still not sure what I did. Any hints? Telling me to RTFM/RTFD/RTFFAQ is acceptable if you tell me where to find the M/D/FAQ. Thanks! -- --Jim --- Jim Goltz AlterNet Engineer goltz@uunet.uu.net