Re: OnTrack Diskmanager and NetBSD???

From: Brian A. Sekcli (lavalamp_at_spiritual-machines.org)
Date: 10/19/03 

Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 19:49:06 -0400

On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 12:34:20 +0200, Sebastian wrote:

> Subject: OnTrack Diskmanager and NetBSD???
> From: "Sebastian" <bastiraase@web.de>
> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
> Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 12:34:20 +0200
>
> I am trying to install NetBSD 1.5.2 on a notebook (Toshiba T4600C) with an
> greater harddisk than original (200mb -> 770 mb). Now I've got a problem
> with the BIOS (BIOS said 770mb, all OSs said 273 MB). So I installed the
> OnTrack DiskManager which is called 'Seagate DiskManager 9.56A' I loaded
> from net.
>

Interesting. We would somehow need to see the output of "disklabel wd0"
and "fdisk wd0".

Can you configure the network on the laptop using sysinst or manually
after boot? If you can do so, "disklabel wd0 > /tmp/dl.out" then "fdisk
wd0 > /tmp/fd.out" then ftp those files off the box to some place else and
post them there.

NetBSD should be able to dissern between the physical disk geometry and
the BIOS reported geometry and work around them, given the NetBSD
partition resides below the BIOS boot limit.

Of course, did you check with Toshiba for a BIOS update? [*stifles a
devilish laugh*]

-Lava

> Then DOS worked fine, Windows NT 3.51 worked fine.
> But now I'm installing NetBSD and I can't partition my disk.
> Sysinst says that there is a partition with 777 MB, if I boot through the
> Diskmanager.
> If I boot through the BIOS, sysinst says that the harddisk has 273 MB, but
> if I'm creating a partition to the end of the disk, the partition has 770MB.
> And if I'm writing the partitions to the disk, no changes were made.
>
> So I'm asking whether someone has done this before.
>
> Btw: I have uninstalled the diskmanager, now it works, but I can only use
> 273mb - that not enough.

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