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>Number:         10319
>Category:       i386
>Synopsis:       FreeBSD with EZDrive
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
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>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Feb 28 21:40:00 PST 1999
>Closed-Date:    Sun Feb 28 22:40:44 PST 1999
>Last-Modified:  Sun Feb 28 22:44:42 PST 1999
>Originator:     Jason
>Release:        2.1.5
>Organization:
>Environment:
DOS/Windows 95
>Description:
My system's BIOS only recognize up to 2.1 MB of my 2.5 harddrive.  In order to recognize beyond 2.1, I have to use EZ Drive from Western Digital.  FreeBSD has problem recognizing my partitions correctly.  As a matter of fact, it is not able to boot.  Anyone could help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Jason
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From: Robert Nordier <rnordier@nordier.com>
To: vangt1998@hotmail.com
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: i386/10319: FreeBSD with EZDrive
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 08:38:15 +0200 (SAT)

 vangt1998@hotmail.com wrote:
  
 > >Number:         10319
 > >Category:       i386
 > >Synopsis:       FreeBSD with EZDrive
 
 > >Description:
 > My system's BIOS only recognize up to 2.1 MB of my 2.5 harddrive.  In
   order to recognize beyond 2.1, I have to use EZ Drive from Western
   Digital.  FreeBSD has problem recognizing my partitions correctly.
   As a matter of fact, it is not able to boot.  Anyone could help will
   be greatly appreciated.
 
 (I assume you don't mean MB but GB.)
 
 Most systems other than DOS/Windows do not support software approaches
 to CHS translation.  The best advice is to remove EZ Drive and
 repartition the drive.  FreeBSD needs BIOS support only for booting,
 so only the / filesystem (typically around 32MB) needs to reside below
 cylinder 1024; the other FreeBSD filesystems can be on the part of the
 disk not addressable though the BIOS.
 
 --
 Robert Nordier
 
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: rnordier 
State-Changed-When: Sun Feb 28 22:40:44 PST 1999 
State-Changed-Why:  
Additional support for legacy CHS translation software is not sensible 
at this stage. 
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