BIOS can't detect HDD cylinder, head etc. values

Hi,

I've a problem with a WD1600JB-00GVA0 EIDE HDD. It
was my secondary hdd in windows xp. It had 3
partitions (FAT32, NTFS, NTFS). WinXP was on the
other drive. Now I bought new hardware and decided
to get rid of the old hdd (the one with WinXP).
So... WD1600JB-00GVA0 is now my only hdd. I tried
to install FreeBSD on it but sysinstall can't
partition the hdd. It says that the given cylinder
etc. values are wrong. I checked the BIOS and it
detects odd cylinder etc. values (65535/255/63). I
checked on WD website for the correct values to
set them up manualy (16383/16/63). It didn't solve
the problem either (sysinstall still says that the
values are wrong)

So... does it mean that there's something wrong
with my HDD (it worked just fine while I used it
in WinXP) or perhaps WinXP formatted it in some
strange way?

regards
t47

mb: M2A-VM /AMD690G
cpu: AMD X2 5200+

Set the BIOS to Auto (detect), Auto (mode) the hard drive.

On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 21:18:35 +0200, Towarzysz 47 <madzio@o2.pl> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I've a problem with a WD1600JB-00GVA0 EIDE HDD. It
>was my secondary hdd in windows xp. It had 3
>partitions (FAT32, NTFS, NTFS). WinXP was on the
>other drive. Now I bought new hardware and decided
>to get rid of the old hdd (the one with WinXP).
>So... WD1600JB-00GVA0 is now my only hdd. I tried
>to install FreeBSD on it but sysinstall can't
>partition the hdd. It says that the given cylinder
>etc. values are wrong. I checked the BIOS and it
>detects odd cylinder etc. values (65535/255/63). I
>checked on WD website for the correct values to
>set them up manualy (16383/16/63). It didn't solve
>the problem either (sysinstall still says that the
>values are wrong)
>
>So... does it mean that there's something wrong
>with my HDD (it worked just fine while I used it
>in WinXP) or perhaps WinXP formatted it in some
>strange way?
>
>regards
>t47
>
>mb: M2A-VM /AMD690G
>cpu: AMD X2 5200+

Andy pisze:
> Set the BIOS to Auto (detect), Auto (mode) the hard drive.

That was the first setting I tried - it didn't
work (at least not for FreeBSD).

regards
t47