ATA HDD installer issue

[J. Nyhuis]

 	Well, the FreeBSD default partition setting fails to complete a 
format.  It won't accept the 'real settings', and I can't seem to 
figure out a way to force them.  I'll have to poke about under advanced 
install to see if it will let me force FDISK paremeters.

 	Thanks,

John H. Nyhuis
Sr. Computer Specialist
Dept. of Pediatrics
HS RR349B, Box 356320
University of Washington
Desk: (206)-685-3884
cabal at u.washington.edu

On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, Pascal Groenen wrote:

> I noticed a similar thing with a similar HD. I went with the FreeBSD 
> suggestion and it resulted in a corrupted HD. I would just go with the 
> Disk/BIOS settings. I did that before for other disks and never had issues 
> then.
>
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "J. Nyhuis" <cabal at u.washington.edu>
> To: <freebsd-stable at freebsd.org>
> Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 7:38 PM
> Subject: Q: ATA HDD installer issue
>
>
>> Greetings,
>> 
>>  I am installing FreeBSD 5.4 on a system using a Seagate Barracuda (Model 
>> ST380011A) 80GB drive.  This drive has 38297 cylinders, 16 heads, and 255 
>> sectors (this is identified both on a label on the drive and by the BIOS 
>> IDE auto-detect).
>>  The FreeBSD installer make it to the disk partitioning screen, and 
>> produces an error stating that my drive parameters are wrong, and that I 
>> should manually correct them.  When I enter the parameters 38297/16/255 
>> (cylinders/heads/sectors), it tells me that the parameters are wrong and 
>> refuses to take my input.
>>  The hardware manual states that the drive parameters for fdisk should be 
>> what is reported in the BIOS (which they are, in this case).
>> 
>>  Ideas?
>> 
>>  Thanks,
>> 
>> John H. Nyhuis
>> Sr. Computer Specialist
>> Dept. of Pediatrics
>> HS RR349B, Box 356320
>> University of Washington
>> Desk: (206)-685-3884
>> cabal at u.washington.edu
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