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
[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
--- 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 this
