From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jan 31 15:51:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from cobble.capnet.state.tx.us (cobble.capnet.state.tx.us [141.198.179.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F8AC37B41A for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 15:51:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (fbsdstable@localhost) by cobble.capnet.state.tx.us (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g0VNpBH96654; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 17:51:11 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from fbsdstable@cobble.capnet.state.tx.us) Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 17:51:11 -0600 (CST) From: FreeBSD Stable To: Subject: Setting drive geometry, big drives? Message-ID: <20020131163919.A96561-100000@cobble.capnet.state.tx.us> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [I sent a similar message a few days ago, but that message apparently got drowned in a flood of messages on another topic.] I have an IBM Deskstar 60GB that the BIOS reports as 29437/16/255. The startup probe reports 119150/16/63. When I try to configure the drive, I get a message saying 119150/16/63 is incorrect, and that I need to set it to the BIOS numbers. If I set it to the BIOS numbers, it still complains that it is incorrect. There is a message in there warning me not to set the drive to its physical geometry, though the BIOS 29437/16/255 seems a likely physical geometry. So the partition editor picks another default, which is 7476/255/63. Which seems to work fine, but now I have three different numbers. The boot still shows 119150/16/63, the BIOS still shows 29437/16/255, and the disklabel shows 7476/255/63. Questions: Why the warning about not using the PHYSICAL GEOMETRY, especially since the BIOS reports an apparently-proper physical geometry, and I'm told I must use the BIOS settings for the drive's geometry? And why is the boot message still reporting 119150/16/63, when that isn't set anywhere??? This is on 4.5-R, tho this was also happening on 4.4-R, I think. stu fbsdstable@cobble.capnet.state.tx.us To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message