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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.coast.net!lll-winken.llnl.gov!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uchinews!news.luc.edu!newsfeed.acns.nwu.edu!news.cc.uic.edu!icarus.cc.uic.edu!rory From: Rory Imua Lampert <rory@uic.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Install FreeBSD on EIDE Date: Mon, 25 Dec 1995 00:11:12 -0600 Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago Lines: 22 Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.951225000218.8687A-100000@icarus.cc.uic.edu> References: <49a6up$3db@masala.cc.uh.edu> <49jr5n$ili@uriah.heep.sax.de> <Pine.SUN.3.90.951205110117.4640D-100000@hurricane.cs.odu.edu> <4a7kpi$jns@uriah.heep.sax.de> <Pine.SOL.3.91.951212200319.1109A-100000@icarus.cc.uic.edu> <4b9b49$9jc@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: icarus.cc.uic.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Sender: rory@icarus.cc.uic.edu In-Reply-To: <4b9b49$9jc@uriah.heep.sax.de> Hey there, finally someone replied! Joy. Okay, the "neato driver for dos" says in the book: It will optimze the speed of the drives for the best possible performance or something of that nature. It supposedly analyzes the PIO and DMA speeds of the VLB EIDE drives and sets those speeds on boot up. The drivers are not crucial and everything works fine if I don't install them. Now for the geometry info. All the gemetry for the WD2250 is fine, 1010cyl 9hd 55sec. Then it gets interesting. The system bios has the hard dirve geometry settings for the 1gig as 2100cyl 16hd 63sec. Which is correct. When FreeBSD looks at it, it sees 545cyl 64hd 63sec. so I changed the geometry info in the partion editor, reinstalled. Same thing happened as before, the drive just clicked when I tried to boot FBSD. The on board bios of the card is somehow messing up the geomtry info after boot up, but there is no way to get a look at what the on-board bios actually says. Any other ideas? Rory Imua Lampert ADN/CSO Consultant University of Illinois at Chicago rory@uic.edu