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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!news.uoknor.edu!ns1.nodak.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!reuter.cse.ogi.edu!psgrain!rainrgnews0!pacifier!news.alpha.net!MathWorks.Com!yeshua.marcam.com!usc!cs.utexas.edu!chpc.utexas.edu!news.utdallas.edu!feenix.metronet.com!datasys From: datasys@metronet.com (Trent Crum) Subject: Re: FreeBSD and IDE Drives Message-ID: <CuELq6.BDM@metronet.com> Date: Fri, 12 Aug 1994 03:58:54 GMT References: <32e188$3me@uuneo.neosoft.com> <32eger$jat@sundog.tiac.net> Organization: Texas Metronet, Internet for the Individual 214-705-2901 (info) Lines: 6 Doin a Low Level format on an IDE drive is a BAD idea. Sorry, unable to help with the real problem, but a LL format is not the answer for an IDE drive. Something you might check would be to see if there is a fdisk utility, to partition the drives and select the partition you want to boot to.