Date: Sat, 20 Jul 1996 10:21:24 -0700 From: jon@vcnet.com (Jon Rust) To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2940 and large drives Message-ID: <v03007804ae16c497f6f5@[205.228.248.22]> In-Reply-To: <199607200716.JAA03287@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <v03007808ae15e0f06977@[205.228.248.22]> from Jon Rust at "Jul 19, 96 06:17:19 pm"
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>> Ignored the message this time about bad geometry (after doing a low level >> format on the drives). The install completes okay. Upon reboot I get a >> message about "there is a drive larger than 1 gig with a 64 head/ 32 sector >> partitioning which is not compatable with the 255 head/ 63 sector >> translation setting on this card. Data could be corrupted. Hit any key to >> .....". > >FreeBSD won't corrupt any data in this case, but might have problems >to boot at all. Your system booted, so this was not a problem. > >> After hitting any key, the system comes up okay, but this obviously >> is bad, as evidenced by my daily crashes where the computer reboots itself! > >Yeah, and herein lies the problem. You forgot to tell us how it >crashes and what exactly happens. How should we know _why_ your >machine crashed if your only sentence about it is ``daily crashes >where the computer reboots itself''? > Well since it crashed in the middle of the night, AND rebooted itself with NO syslog entries, how am I supposed to tell? I came in in the morning, and the machines sitting on the BIOS screen (you know, where it checks the memory, tells you what kind of IDE drive you got, and the scsi card announces its presence) complaining about head/sector translations waiting for me to hit any key. The information above is all I had. Since turning off the "enable DOS partitions > 1g" option in the card, all is well... or at least it hasn't crashed in about 24 hours. A new record! Thanks to those who helped... though no one's suggested a straightforward way to partition up new drives. Linux has cfdisk, but I guess I'm not in Kansas anymore, Toto. jon <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Jon Rust <http://www.vcnet.com/>; VCNet For info, call us or email to 805.383.3500 info@vcnet.com PGP Fingerprint = 58 55 6C 46 4C 2B 7E 65 BB 35 AB 02 E1 27 73 7B "African swallows maybe, but not a European swallow. That's my point." <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>
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