Re: Installing NetBSD 4.0 gives "disklabel: partition c: offset past end of unit"

[Cem Kayali <cemkayali%eticaret.com.tr@localhost>]

My shame,

I recently noticed that it is because of SATA drive Yes.

I have only IDE or AHCI mode in bios console, and selecting IDE seems to be
solution.


Will i have disadvantage if i use IDE mode? This is personal notebook, not
server.

Regards,




Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:17:18 -0700 (PDT)
> Cem Kayali <cemkayali%eticaret.com.tr@localhost> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> 
>> Well, the problem is i think, it shows wd0d (whole disk) partition as
>> 67 MB
> 
> Let me guess -- it's an SATA drive.  Go into your BIOS and reconfigure
> the system to use ATA mode.  It's a known bug that no one has a fix for.
> 
> 
>               --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
> 
> 


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