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Date:      Wed, 28 Sep 2005 19:13:34 +0200
From:      Bogdan Taru <bgd@icomag.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   [bgd@level5.de: invalid geometry for >1TB]
Message-ID:  <20050928171334.GA70500@icomag.de>

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	Hi hackers,

 tryin' to install 4.11 or 5.x on a Dell box with a Perc 3/Di Raid
controller (with 5x 300GB scsis). I get 'invalid geometry' when running
sysinstall/fdisk on the 'disk', the geometry presented being:

 145815 cyl / 255 heads / 63 sectors

 I tried to press 'A' for allocate the whole disk, and after several more
warnings it did that, but now the 'free' space in the list has a big minus
value as 'Offset'. Is that a problem?

 What should I do in order to get fbsd on this box? Change geometry? Any
other hacks/workarounds?

 Thanks,
 bogdan



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