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Subject: Mapped geometry vs. Actual
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Date: Sat, 03 Aug 1996 11:13:19 -0500
From: Randy Terbush <randy@zyzzyva.com>
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I've long been an advocate of working out the true geometry
issues when setting up SCSI drives.

Could someone comment on whether this is still (ever) considered
to be worth the frustration?

I had a recently frustrating experience with a 540M Quantum Fireball
that FreeBSD simply refused to accept my "true" drive geometry.
FreeBSD won and mapped to ???/32/64.