i386/83425: fdisk can't read or write disklabel

[Jan Slaets]

The following reply was made to PR i386/83425; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Jan Slaets <jan at janot.if.sc.usp.br>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, jan at janot.ifsc.usp.br
Cc:  
Subject: Re: i386/83425: fdisk can't read or write disklabel
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 21:07:45 -0300

 <>A later Bios examination showed that the disk was
 defined in the Bios as being Cyl 19885 Head 16 Sec 63.
 Changing the disk geometry in the fdisk sysinstall FreeBSD 5.4 utility
 to this “new” value made the installation possible.
 Now I have however DMA sporadic access failures to ad0.
 I changed the motherboard, and with a “well behaved” BIOS (Head = 255)
 Now everything works.