atapci VIA 82C596B UDMA66 controller: problem for 5.X ?

[Mars Trading]

Important:
Don't write to the drive after changing bios settings.
Just see if it works.

When I installed 5.3 on another machine w/ a Maxtor 40GB HDD, FBSD 
complained about the drive geometry settings.  It seems the 
defaults use CHS regardless of how the bios is set.  I had to 
change geometry to what the bios would recognize as LBA, otherwise, 
when set to AUTO, the drive mode would be LARGE.

All that didn't happen with the 20GB drive I'm using; it works in 
CHS mode.

Dennis

On Wednesday 16 February 2005 21:47, you wrote:
> --- Mars Trading <marstrade at gmail.com> wrote:
> > This idea may seem useless but what have you got to
> > lose?
> >
> > Have you tried changing bios setting for hard drive
> > mode to "auto" or
> > something other than "LBA"?  Maybe "LARGE" or "CHS"?
>
> Is there a risk that I lose all data on my disk, when
> changing this in the BIOS?
>
> BTW: During the fresh FreeBSD install, I have never
> encountered a choice for formatting with or without
> LBA. In the Fdisk window, I choose 'use entire disk
> for FreeBSD', and in the partition window I have set
> 'newfs' for all partitions.
>
> Thanks,
> Rob.
>
>
>
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