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From: hiller@fzi.de (Thomas Hiller)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: disklabel problem with IDE drive
Message-ID: <1992Jul30.092046.17701@fzi.de>
Date: 30 Jul 92 09:20:46 GMT
Article-I.D.: fzi.1992Jul30.092046.17701
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Organization: Forschungszentrum Informatik, Karlsruhe, FRG
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I have problems getting a disklabel on the HD, when I also have a DOS partition.
My BIOS parameters are different from those on the drive (a Seagate 3144). Is this
the problem ?
What must be changed, that always the BIOS parameters are used ?
Is this a general solution ?

Thanks Thomas
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Thomas Hiller                                   email: hiller@fzi.de
Forschungszentrum Informatik
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