From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Feb 1 12:23:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.122.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F8FC37B417 for ; Fri, 1 Feb 2002 12:23:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.11.3/8.10.1) with ESMTP id g11KO8N10972; Fri, 1 Feb 2002 12:24:08 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 12:24:07 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White To: FreeBSD Stable Cc: David Burren , Subject: Re: Setting drive geometry, big drives? In-Reply-To: <20020131222442.I96906-100000@cobble.capnet.state.tx.us> Message-ID: <20020201122208.X9956-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> X-All-Your-Base: are belong to 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 On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, FreeBSD Stable wrote: > So, why does the partition editor think the 119150/16/63 > numbers would be a bad selection??? It is what it is > getting when it asks the drive, apparently. Why should > I _not_ use the numbers in the probe, and why not use > the BIOS reported numbers? It might be using the values from the MBR/DOS partition table. If you're going to use the whole disk anyway, zero off the front end and let FreeBSD generate a partition table. Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message