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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!hpg30a.csc.cuhk.hk!news.hk.net!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!news.cerf.net!news From: marty@mosgrp.com (Marty Gordon) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD support for Extended IDE Drives? Date: 16 Nov 1994 05:47:15 GMT Organization: The Mosaic Group Lines: 24 Message-ID: <3ac6d4$1sk@news.cerf.net> References: <3a6aje$mk5@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> <3a84fh$ql2@ucsbuxb.ucsb.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: 192.215.82.7 X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.92.6+ In article <3a84fh$ql2@ucsbuxb.ucsb.edu>, loren@beauty.ucsb.edu (Loren Koss) says: > >In <3a6aje$mk5@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> s9407307@yallara.cs.rmit.OZ.AU (Greg) writes: >> >>I am new to FreeBSD [newbie warning!] and I am after installing >>BSD on a 1GB IDE drive. Does BSD support these "new" (ish) drives? > >Yes!! It works perfectly on mine.. With a DOS partition no doubt. Cool. I'm trying to do the same. Mind some questions? - Do you have the WD-AC31000 (1gb w/128k cache)? - Does your BIOS allow you to set it up "native" i.e. 2100 cyl/16 heads or does it do some geometry translation? If so, what? - Where the defaults for geometry suggested by the install pgm what you used? - Do you have an MS-DOS partition within the first 1024 cyls? - What version of FreeBSD have you done this with? - Are you using BootEasy or OS-BS for a boot selector? - Did you setup your disklabel to access your DOS partition? Anything else you could add would be very helpful. Thanks Marty