--- "James J. Ramsey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 12:23:38 -0800 (PST)
> From: "James J. Ramsey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Revisiting the semirandom bug/issue in
> FreeBSD's ATA querying
> To: [EMAIL PRO
--- "Gary W. Swearingen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I can't even guess what the problem might be, but
> can you (or do you not
> want to) work around it?
If you read my e-mail again, you should find this:
"In the second setup, I scrounged up an ATA cable that
I knew could handle ATA66. I used
[The following was originally posted by me to the
FreeBSD bugs list when I was a lot surer that I was
dealing with a FreeBSD bug. Now I'm not sure sure if
this is a software bug, hardware bug, or a consequence
of dubious design decisions. Hence the cross-post to
here.]
I've been doing my best to s
This may be deja vu if you've been tracking
comp.unix.bsd.freebsd. . . .
The short version:
FreeBSD 4.x is not detecting my hard disk geometry
even remotely correctly. It reports a wildly inflated
cylinder count. I have tried out several Linux
distributions on this hard drive and none of them ha
