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- From: bkc@ernie.Princeton.EDU (Bruce Caruthers)
- Subject: Re: 386BSD install problem -- can't mount /
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.005906.13693@Princeton.EDU>
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- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 00:59:06 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan11.224035.2823@fcom.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes:
- >
- >386BSD asks the controller about the drive geometry instead of believing
- >the CMOS settings. If your CMOS settings don't match what the controller
- >says, you have "translated drive" problems.
-
- Is there any way to tell 386BSD what the drive is set for? The settings
- for my drive are significantly different (manually configured long ago)
- from what Seagate reports when you call their number. It does, however,
- still fit a "type" listed in the BIOS (42, if I remember correctly). I
- am fairly certain that the current settings are *not* what the IDE
- controller reports. If I were to change the settings, it would require a
- lot of work re-doing the DOS partition and such.
-
- Thanks for any help (at least I know what is probably the problem, now, and can
- change it if I get desperate enough),
-
- -bkc (one of the previous posters of this kind of install problem)
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