Re: freebsd has problems with bios

2005-10-13 Thread Peter Clutton
The bios has 4 modes auto, large, lba, chs in which to access the hard disk. I ttried all 4 modes and it doesn't solve the problem. No, i didn't say to try different bios modes. I said (which fdisk also says) that you should: 1. Go into the bios, see what it reports as the CHS 2. Reboot (i

Re: freebsd has problems with bios

2005-10-13 Thread Kamal R. Prasad
I was replying to both you and Andrew R. Andrew mentioned the hw may be unstable. I did enter the same values provided by BIOS -but it doesn't solve the problem. Most likely, the bios on my motherboard is not compaible with freebsd. regards -kamal On 13-Oct-05, at 11:35 AM, Peter Clutton

Re: freebsd has problems with bios

2005-10-13 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/13/05, Kamal R. Prasad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was replying to both you and Andrew R. Andrew mentioned the hw may be unstable. I did enter the same values provided by BIOS -but it doesn't solve the problem. Most likely, the bios on my motherboard is not compaible with freebsd.

Re: freebsd has problems with bios

2005-10-13 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Kamal R. Prasad [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have verified integrity of the hard disk and this problem shows up on a new samsung 1604N hard disk too. It is a hard disk independet problem. On 13-Oct-05, at 5:49 AM, Peter Clutton wrote: For some reason, the values of hard disk geometry

Re: freebsd has problems with bios

2005-10-13 Thread Kamal R. Prasad
The motherboard is from American Megatrends Corp and it runs Award Bios. I am pasting below info from dmesg below:- -- CPU: AMD Athalon(tm) XP(1468.47-Mhz 686 class CPU) Origin = AuthenticAMD Id = 0x662 Stepping = 2 Features -0x383f9ffFPu,VME,DE,PSE,F\PSE,TSC

Re: freebsd has problems with bios

2005-10-13 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/13/05, Kamal R. Prasad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The motherboard is from American Megatrends Corp and it runs Award Bios. I am pasting below info from dmesg below:- -- CPU: AMD Athalon(tm) XP(1468.47-Mhz 686 class CPU) Origin = AuthenticAMD Id = 0x662 Stepping =

freebsd has problems with bios

2005-10-12 Thread Kamal R. Prasad
Hello. I have an american megatrends corp motherboard with an amd 2 ghz processor, For some reason, the values of hard disk geometry (cylinders/head/ sectors( are not accrptable to fdisk and when i agree to using freebsd 's idea of disk geometryt, during sysinstall -I get an error:-0

Re: freebsd has problems with bios

2005-10-12 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/12/05, Kamal R. Prasad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. I have an american megatrends corp motherboard with an amd 2 ghz processor, For some reason, the values of hard disk geometry (cylinders/head/ sectors( are not accrptable to fdisk and when i agree to using freebsd 's idea of disk

Re: freebsd has problems with bios

2005-10-12 Thread Peter Clutton
For some reason, the values of hard disk geometry (cylinders/head/ sectors( are not accrptable to fdisk and when i agree to using freebsd 's idea of disk geometryt, during sysinstall -I get an error:-0 UDMA_100 error:READWRITE Failure ICRC error. Usually fdsisk asks you to check what the

Re: freebsd has problems with bios

2005-10-12 Thread Kamal R. Prasad
I have verified integrity of the hard disk and this problem shows up on a new samsung 1604N hard disk too. It is a hard disk independet problem. On 13-Oct-05, at 5:49 AM, Peter Clutton wrote: For some reason, the values of hard disk geometry (cylinders/head/ sectors( are not accrptable to