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Subject: Re: 200GB IDE disk on old system
Poster: Wilhelm B. Kloke
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 12:41:26 +0000 (UTC)
Related Postings: 1 2 3 4 5
Eivind E schrieb:
>
> rumrunner@ulv:~$ fdisk /dev/ad0
> ******* Working on device /dev/ad0 *******
> parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
> cylinders=310101 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl)
>
> Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1
> parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
> cylinders=310101 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl)

Presumably you have written the MBR with a different OS in the first time, or got a disk with a valid MBRi from the vendor. OK, I try this way, too. 1st try Linux, 2nd Windows. If this should work, it is still a pity that FreeBSD doesn't have usable tools to do the work natively.

 

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