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Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 16:51:27 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: "Jose' Monteiro" <jm@pluriproj.pt>
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Subject: Re: Problems using Barracuda disk in a dedicated FBSD Server
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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