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

[Towarzysz 47]

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]

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

 

[Towarzysz 47]

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