On Sat, Feb 19, 2000 at 02:48:11PM -0500, Dan J Fraser wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to install NetBSD on an older P100 system with a Samsung 560MB
> HDD.  However, NetBSD detects the drive strangely.
> 
> It gets the geometry right (heads/cyls/sectors) but comes up with very large
> negative numbers for the capacity (megabytes) and the total number of
> sectors on the drive.
> 
> I've tried forcing the geometry in netbsd, putting on a fresh new MBR,
> messing with the BIOS, etc, all to no avail.
> 
> Any suggestions?

This drive seems broken. Could you send the relevant dmesg lines (all the ones
which starts with 'wd0') ? You can read the boot messages on the boot floppy
with 'more /kern/msgbuf'
To install on this drive you may have to run fdisk and disklabel by hand to
correct the size.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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