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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.duke.edu!duke.cs.duke.edu!macbeth.cs.duke.edu!not-for-mail From: pusateri@macbeth.cs.duke.edu (Thomas Pusateri) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Install on EIDE drive with DOS (actually, Win95) too... (yawn) Date: 16 Aug 1995 16:28:23 -0400 Organization: Duke University Computer Science Dept.; Durham, N.C. Lines: 20 Message-ID: <40tkd7$j2s@macbeth.cs.duke.edu> References: <11491174wnr@browns.co.uk> <40s628$3aq@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: macbeth.cs.duke.edu In article <40s628$3aq@agate.berkeley.edu> jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes: >In article <11491174wnr@browns.co.uk>, > >Did you try specifying the translated geometry to FreeBSD with the `(G)eometry' >command? This should work! This did not work in 2.0 SNAP-950412. The translated geometry had 32 heads which the wd driver choked on. I was able to make it work by telling my BIOS that I only had 1023 cylinders instead of 1400. Since FreBSD doesn't use the BIOS, it read the disk label from the disk which was correct and DOS was happy since it read the BIOS and there were not more than 1024 cylinders so it did not geometry translation at all. In a later version of FreeBSD (like 2.0.5) geometry translation may work. I was waiting for PCMCIA modem support before doing another upgrade. Tom