[346] in netbsd-help mailing list archive
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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Wed Oct 4 11:13:06 1995
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 1995 11:12:14 -0400
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bdkincy@MIT.EDU, netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[345] in netbsd-help mailing list archive"
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
> The most likely cause of this is a bug in our partition-generating
> script which can cause it to use the wrong geometry on large IDE or
> SCSI disks which use translated geometries. (Yes, this is a pretty
> serious problem; hopefully I'll find time to address it soon.)
Yes. The disk in question probes as:
wd0 at wdc0 drive 0: 814MB, 1654 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec,
512 bytes/sec <WDC AC2850F>
wd0: using 16-sector 16-bit pio transfers, lba addressing
> I think the best thing to do is to get "pfdisk" and put it on a
> floppy.
Note that you can get pfdisk from /mit/sipb/netbsd/i386/utils.
I suppose I should modify the mailing stuff to include fdisk
output to make debugging this sort of thing easier.
Good luck!
--jhawk
