From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 30 03:38:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA09887 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 30 Jan 1998 03:38:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gw2.leirianet.pt (gw2-e0.leirianet.pt [195.23.92.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA09851 for ; Fri, 30 Jan 1998 03:38:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jm@pluriproj.pt) Received: from antares.leirianet.pt (antares.leirianet.pt [195.23.92.195]) by gw2.leirianet.pt (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA16355 for ; Fri, 30 Jan 1998 11:39:08 GMT From: jm@pluriproj.pt (Jose' Monteiro) To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Problems using Barracuda disk in a dedicated FBSD Server Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 11:37:47 GMT X-PGP-Key-Fingerprint: 2.6.3ia: 4289 7864 7C6F 06C6 BB1E 299E 8FFA DC61 - 5.0: B698 9856 F7DD C74B 657E 0122 9392 9164 F2EE A48B Organization: Leiri@net Reply-To: "Jose' Monteiro" Message-ID: <34d3b8e9.5421857@mail.pluriproj.pt> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.5/32.451 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id DAA09882 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe questions" I'm setting a dedicated FreeBSD Server. My box is a P2 with a Barracuda HD (ST34371W) controlled by an Adaptec Ultra Wide SCSI (AHA-2940). I started creating a single FreeBSD partition. After the FreeBSD, i got a "Read Error" message when booting from the HD. After inumerous trials to get the OS booting fro the HD, i tried to create a small dos partition and the rest of the disk with a FreeBSD partition plus Booteasy, and it worked! But this is not what I want, I want to use ALL the disk for FreeBSD and no BootEasy. I already tried to tweak the HD geometry in Fdisk, but fdisk tells me that it can't accept a phisical geometry (whick i took from the HD booklet). It needs the SCSI translated geometry. Can anyone help? Thanks in advance, Jose' Monteiro *---------Jose Monteiro ---------* |Pluriproj Lda.- Redes e Sistemas de Comunicacoes | |Agente IP em Leiria - http://www.pluriproj.pt | |Tel: +351 44 829980 - Fax: +351 44 829981 | |PGP Keys: www.pluriproj.pt/~admin/keys.html | |Fingerprints: X Headers | *------------------UIN: 3965786------------------*