POS system trashing hard drives during install - SOLVED
John McDonnell
mcdonnjd at pcam.org
Tue Dec 22 19:29:21 UTC 2015
> The BIOS by default is set to autodetect the mode for the hard drive and
> reports these settings:
> Cylinders: 19158
> Heads: 16
> Sectors: 255
>
> Capacity: 40022MB
>
> Changing to LBA mode reports:
> Cylinders: 4865
> Heads: 255
> Sectors: 63
>
> Capacity: 40018 MB
I changed the BIOS from AUTO to LBA and was able to install FreeBSD on this POS system. Hopefully I can change the BIOS on the one I have at home to LBA instead of AUTO and have it recognize one of the 80 GB drives I previously tried to set up. But in any case, going forward on these computers, I at least know that I can get them to work with a little tweak to the BIOS HDD geometry reporting.
Thank you for your time.
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John McDonnell
Penn Cambria School District
mcdonnjd at pcam.org
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