Matthew Dillon wrote:
Again, in case the information got lost in the shuffle... before messing with any DMA modes just try telling the BIOS to put the disk in 'Large' mode.The problem is that the BIOS misinterprets the slice table and puts the disk into a strange mode that the boot code cannot get it out of. Its got to be a bug in the BIOS since packet mode (which the boot code uses to read data from the disk) is supposed to be independant of the disk access mode. I'm sure that there's a tweak we can do to fdisk and boot0cfg that will fix the BIOS's misdetection, but I have no idea what.
I was told on IRC yesterday that our fdisk has issues by setting the CHS information to a wrapped value instead of just willing it with ones. Don't know if that is the culprit, though. cheers simon -- Serve - BSD +++ RENT this banner advert +++ ASCII Ribbon /"\ Work - Mac +++ space for low €€€ NOW!1 +++ Campaign \ / Party Enjoy Relax | http://dragonflybsd.org Against HTML \ Dude 2c 2 the max ! http://golden-apple.biz Mail + News / \
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