From owner-freebsd-current Sun Nov 24 23:13:22 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA09046 for current-outgoing; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 23:13:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from grackle.grondar.za (grackle.grondar.za [196.7.18.131]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA09036 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 23:13:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from grackle.grondar.za (localhost.grondar.za [127.0.0.1]) by grackle.grondar.za (8.8.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA06781; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 09:11:04 +0200 (SAT) Message-Id: <199611250711.JAA06781@grackle.grondar.za> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , "Rodney W. Grimes" , joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 2.2-ALPHA install failure Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 09:11:02 +0200 From: Mark Murray Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk "Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote: > In any case, rather than pointing fingers I'd just as soon make it > DTRT, but I'm still waiting for input on what TRT is. :-) At work we now have a largish number of FreeBSD machines, and I often get called in if there are problems. At install time I usually end up fighting with dis geometries, and have settled down to the following: IDE - let FreeBSD figure it out by itself (IDE/ATA is despised, and we avoid it where possible on Unix boxen). This usually works OK (If I remember correctly - I have only done this twice - with no problems) SCSI - we use three contollers in house -Adaptec 1540, Adaptec 2940 and NCR 810. For all of these we either use MB/32/64 (or is it MB/64/32? - I am at home now) or N/255/63 (or N/63/255?). With these selections we have no trouble at all. Allowing sysinstall to pick/discover geometries is asking for trouble. M -- Mark Murray PGP key fingerprint = 80 36 6E 40 83 D6 8A 36 This .sig is umop ap!sdn. BC 06 EA 0E 7A F2 CE CE