On May 1, dbsaint@bellsouth.net wrote
> 
> 
> Since you are the one that maintains such things :)
> 
> I have a laptop that is a Micron Millenia Transport.
> It has a 3 GB drive that is not properly probed by the install kernel resulting
> in < not to mention major data loss for me , but thats the whole fun of beta
> testing > anyway, Im pretty sure this is the model drive that originally came
> with the laptop. 
> the bios reports this:
> 
> Type: Auto 3242 Mb
> Cylinders:  6282
> Heads:       16
> Sectors / track  63
> Write precomp: none
> 
> Multi sector transfers  16 sectors
> LBA mode control Enabled
> 32 Bit I/O Enabled
> Transfer Mode: Fast PIO 4
> 
> NetBSd finds this disk to be:
>  1024 cylinders
>  8 heads
>  17 sect / track
> 
> which only leaves me like a 68 MB disk :/

Hum, I'm pretty sure this is because the IDENTIFY command failed, letting the
driver believe it's a pre-ata drive. Did you drive got probed as "ST506" ?

What boot floppy did you use ?

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