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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!david From: david@mlb.geomechanics.csiro.au (David Le Blanc) Subject: Re: 386BSD - Seems to stop my disks from booting... Message-ID: <david.716440583@mlb.geomechanics.csiro.au> Sender: news@mel.dit.csiro.au Organization: CSIRO DIT (Melb.) References: <kjb.716286770@godzilla.cgl.citri.edu.au> <9209139363@zone4.ocunix.on.ca> Date: 14 Sep 92 03:16:23 GMT Lines: 21 andrew@zone4.ocunix.on.ca (Andrew Low) writes: >In article <kjb.716286770@godzilla.cgl.citri.edu.au> >kjb@cgl.citri.edu.au (Kendall Bennett) writes: >>120M Western Digitial 2120 hard disks (WDC AC2120M). >IDE drives *should* be used in their native geometry, this often means >... That and find out the native geometry of >your IDE drive, it might make all the difference in the world. I have a WD 120M 'WDC 2120' (It has the large 'Caviar' label on it. The geometry I use is type 47.. Heads 8, sectors 35, cyl 872 -- David Le Blanc : Email: david@mlb.geomechanics.csiro.au : `Sort of a cross between a Jaguar CSIRO Division of Geomechanics, : and a freight train.' the Alien P.O. Box 54 Mt Waverley 3149 : in Alien^3.