RE: 5.1 WD 80.0GB SE Drive Geometry

2003-09-08 Thread Jim
(the latest). Thanks much to everyone who helped with this. Jim -Original Message- From: Hendrik Hasenbein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 06, 2003 3:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Jerry McAllister; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: 5.1 WD 80.0GB SE Drive Geometry

Re: 5.1 WD 80.0GB SE Drive Geometry

2003-09-06 Thread Hendrik Hasenbein
Jim wrote: Same deal. Installation runs through fine, does the post-install, finishes nicely, and reboots to a void (system runs POST, shows the devices, then hangs indefinitely (pre-os startup)). Turn on LBA access for that disk in your bios instead of auto and dont touch the geometrie in the

Re: 5.1 WD 80.0GB SE Drive Geometry

2003-09-05 Thread Jerry McAllister
Let me start by qualifying I am extremely new to FreeBSD (I have performed a whopping two installs thus far). I am looking to fire up a machine with a single western digital special edition 80GB IDE drive for simple storage and testing. The BIOS detects the correct geometry for the

Re: 5.1 WD 80.0GB SE Drive Geometry

2003-09-05 Thread James Leone
Jim wrote: Let me start by qualifying I am extremely new to FreeBSD (I have performed a whopping two installs thus far). I am looking to fire up a machine with a single western digital special edition 80GB IDE drive for simple storage and testing. The BIOS detects the correct geometry for the