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#! rnews 1668 sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!news.uoknor.edu!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!sunic!sunic.sunet.se!umdac!fizban.solace.mh.se!news.ifm.liu.se!news.kth.se!eru.mt.luth.se!omega.ludd.luth.se!not-for-mail From: ragge@ludd.luth.se (Anders Magnusson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: 32 heads probs /w FreeBSD Date: 13 May 1995 17:49:34 +0200 Organization: Lulea University Computer Society - Ludd Lines: 15 Message-ID: <3p2kee$qmu@zero.ludd.luth.se> References: <3oo6c8$1gt@pappel.cs.uni-magdeburg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: zero.ludd.luth.se Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #9 (NOV) In <3oo6c8$1gt@pappel.cs.uni-magdeburg.de> jesse@csmd.cs.UNI-Magdeburg.DE (Roland Jesse) writes: >is it possible that FreeBSD does not work together with a 32 head harddisk? >I have got an Enhanced IDE HD (Maxtor) with probably 32 heads. It is probably not 32 heads; more likely 16. I think that your problem is DOS :-) DOS don't like cylinders above 1024, and you may have, say, 1400 cylinders. Then BIOS fools dos and says that there are only 700 cyinders but 32 heads. You can change this in BIOS but be aware that your DOS partition must be on cylinders < 1024. I had exactly the same problem myself on an P90 here :-) -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Anders Magnusson - ragge@ludd.luth.se - Luleå Academic Computer Society - - May the carrier be with you! -