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From: bkc@ernie.Princeton.EDU (Bruce Caruthers)
Subject: Re: 386BSD install problem -- can't mount /
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In article <1993Jan11.224035.2823@fcom.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes:
>
>386BSD asks the controller about the drive geometry instead of believing
>the CMOS settings. If your CMOS settings don't match what the controller
>says, you have "translated drive" problems.
Is there any way to tell 386BSD what the drive is set for? The settings
for my drive are significantly different (manually configured long ago)
from what Seagate reports when you call their number. It does, however,
still fit a "type" listed in the BIOS (42, if I remember correctly). I
am fairly certain that the current settings are *not* what the IDE
controller reports. If I were to change the settings, it would require a
lot of work re-doing the DOS partition and such.
Thanks for any help (at least I know what is probably the problem, now, and can
change it if I get desperate enough),
-bkc (one of the previous posters of this kind of install problem)
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