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From: gilbert@cs.utk.edu (Steve Gilbert)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: New disklabel not working? 256 heads?????
Date: 19 Sep 1994 19:03:55 GMT
Organization: CS Labs, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
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Message-ID: <GILBERT.94Sep19150356@hydra1c.cs.utk.edu>
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Hi. I'm using FreeBSD 1.1.5-R, and I just bought
a new Connor IDE disk to daisy-chain with my other one.
I got the disklabel and eveything done fine. The disk
is partitioned correctly and all the filesystems are there
and accessible. There's just one funny thing. I get this
error at boot time:
wd1: can't handle 256 heads from partition table (controller value 16 restored)
...what could be causing this? The disk has 16 heads, so the "controller
value" is correct and everything works fine. Why would it be initially
looking for 256 heads? No disk on the planet has 256 heads. I've
checked everything I can imagine.../etc/disktab...output from "disklabel"...
the BIOS settings...nothing ever mentions the number 256 in relation
to anything. Does anyone have any ideas? Any help would be greatly
appreciated.
--
Steve Gilbert Internet: gilbert@cs.utk.edu
Backups, Department of Computer Science
University of Tennessee, Knoxville