Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 10:10:30 -0400 (EDT) From: jon <jon@whoweb.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net Subject: Re: Disk geometry salad... Message-ID: <200406021410.i52EAUKS076732@whoweb.com> In-Reply-To: <20040602060214.07c72867.y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net>
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>From a high level view, it means you don't have access to 4.6 meg of data space on a 40 gig hard drive. That represents 1/10000 of the disk space you do have available to you. Don't worry about it, install the OS and enjoy FreeBSD. > > 2) When installing FreeBSD, sysinstall warns that a geometry of the > > first drive (1) as it detects it (77545/16/63) is incorrect and > > can't be used. It automatically replaces the values with > > 4865/255/63. The problem is that after replacing the geometry with > > 4865/255/63 the number of LBA sectors (as listed in the Disk Slice > > editor) becomes lower than the manufacturer spec (78,156,225 instead > > of 78,165,360). What does this mean?
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