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From: tlov@park.uvsc.edu (Timothy Loveridge)
Subject: Re: YET ANOTHER disklabel AND IDE 2nd DRIVE PROBLEM - HELP!!
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1993 16:35:44 GMT
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From article <CE8Hy0.6tv@csi.compuserve.com>, by mfoley@csi.compuserve.com (M Foley):
> I just moved a 200M Conner 3204 from MSDOS to 386bsd 0.1-0.1.4, but I can't
> disklabel it. I use the (newly created) cp3204 entry in my /etc/disktab
> file as shown:
> I *can* access the Conner under MSDOS, partition, format etc.
> The drive is properply recognized at boot-time. It is identified as a Conner
> Peripherals CP3204F on wd1.
>
> The Segate 157a drive already has a disklabel, placed there prior to the 0.1.4
> patchkit. The Conner was moved right from DOS. I've tried deleting all
> partitions using DOS fdisk and creating and formatting a single DOS partition.
>
>
> HELP!!!
>
I don't know that I can help you much with your CONNER drive, but I had
a similar problem when I was trying to install FreeBSD on my MAXTOR 7213AT. I
also had the drive working fine under DOS, and when I booted from the FreeBSD
distribution floppy the drive was recognized properly. What I didn't know was
that my drive supported some kind of universal drive parameter (geometry)
translation. I called MAXTOR directly to find out what the correct drive
settings were, just to check. My drive was set originally at: 845 cylinders,
8 heads, 61 sector/track. DOS, and the drive itself, used these parameters
just fine. FreeBSD read the geometry (settings) directly from the drive instead
of looking in the BIOS for the settings. The settings FreeBSD wanted, and which
were recommended by MAXTOR coincidently, were: 683 cylinders, 16 heads, and
38 sectors/track. Yes, I had to backup my DOS stuff and re-format the drive (I
had to keep a DOS partition around), but FreeBSD worked fine after that. It
could be that you are having a similar problem. Just a thought.
--
Timothy Loveridge tlov@park.uvsc.edu
UVSC Computer Services loveriti@uvsc.edu
loveriti@cc.uvsc.edu