Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 17:50:44 -0700 (PDT) From: brennan@merk.com To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: misc/4756: Weird disk geometry selected in "custom" installation Message-ID: <199710140050.RAA07424@hub.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <199710140100.SAA07813@hub.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 4756 >Category: misc >Synopsis: Weird disk geometry selected in "custom" installation >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Mon Oct 13 18:00:00 PDT 1997 >Last-Modified: >Originator: Rich Brennan >Organization: >Release: 2.2.2 >Environment: Not installed yet >Description: When choosing to do a custom installation, when I was presented with the FDISK menu, I received a really weird dis geometry for my SCSI disk: 1028 cyls, 255 heads, 63(?) sectors per track, giving me an 8 gig drive. The drive is a micropolis 1528, adaptec controller. The real geometry is 2100 cyls, 15 heads, 84 sectors/track. I tried to enter the value, but the fdisk program insisted I was completely whacked out. I tried several times, always with the same situation. I finally gave up and tried the "novice" installation. Oddly enough, the fdisk program sensed the appropriate geometry, and I was able to fdisk and partition the drive with no problem. I'm now installing from CDROM. Note: when I was getting the bad geometries, during the boot I saw the correct geometry printed out by the driver, so I know something knew the correct disk geometry. It seems that fdisk was the weird one.... >How-To-Repeat: >Fix: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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