Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 16:51:27 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "Jose' Monteiro" <jm@pluriproj.pt> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems using Barracuda disk in a dedicated FBSD Server Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980130165058.2815H-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <34d3b8e9.5421857@mail.pluriproj.pt>
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On Fri, 30 Jan 1998, Jose' Monteiro wrote: > 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. You could have deleted the MSDOS slice during the fdisk editor in sysinstall -- at that point sysinstall's groked the correct geometry. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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