Ontrack and track boundaries

[Matt Ronge]

Hello all!

I just recently wiped out my FreeBSD system for reasons I won't get into
here and began installing a fresh copy.

Anyway, my computer requires the Ontrack Dynamic Drive Overlay because of a
BIOS limit of 33Gig. I have installed the DDO software just like I did
before but when I go to install FreeBSD, FreeBSD complains. Fdisk shows that
the drives offset starts at -63 and when I try and create a partition it
complanes about incorrect track boundaries.

Here is what I do in order to install BSD:

1. Boot up off Ontrack DDO floppy
2. Tell drive to report as 33G instead of 80G and restart
3. Format drive using Ontrack as fat32 inorder to install software
4. Boot up with FreeBSD to try and partition
5. Error!

A side note is that if I don't format the drive as fat32 first DDO doesn't
installed and BSD only sees 33G. Also my drive is an IBM Deskstar80GXP I
believe.


I know it works since I had it running before.

Thanks
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Matt


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Re: Ontrack and track boundaries

[Pierrick Brossin]

 2. Tell drive to report as 33G instead of 80G and restart

Why do you want the drive to report as 33Gb instead of 80Gb ?

I installed FBSD on a IBM 60 Gb HD on an old PC (so BIOS not detecting 60Gb but
8Gb if I remember correctly) and FreeBSD simply reconized the whole HD.
Have you tried to upgrade your BIOS btw ?

Cya

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