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From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Logical Block Assignment -- WD 1.2gig drive
Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 08:46:01 -0700
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Ken Gaugler wrote:
> 
> Am trying to get Linux, FreeBSD and Win95 set up on a new WD 1.2Gig
> IDE drive, and running into strange behaviors like "Format wrong in
> bad block map sector".
> 
> Someone said I need to look into LBA setup.  Anyone know of a good
> place to find such information?
> 

I don't know how much this will help, but here goes anyway:

I'm using primarily WD 1.2 & 1.6 GB drives in my network, and using the 
straight numbers instead of LBA; They are working fine.

I personally despise Win95 ( and NT 4, since they're moving to the same 
interface), but I've had to work with it enough to know it's about as 
forgiving as an Inquisitor, and just about as user-friendly (IMHO). In 
any case, Win95 always assumes it is to have the whole drive to itself, 
and takes over everything. Therefore, install Win95 first, and then use 
fips to shrink down the partition it generated. I know it leaves the 
clusters too big, but if you re-install it will grab it all again.

Once you have limited Win95's space, you can proceed to install the rest 
of what you want.

I hope it helps, and I pity you with Win95,

Ken