From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 30 11:51:52 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id LAA14520 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 30 Dec 1996 11:51:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts6-line11.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.41]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id LAA14515 for ; Mon, 30 Dec 1996 11:51:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.2/8.6.12) with SMTP id LAA00345; Mon, 30 Dec 1996 11:51:34 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 30 Dec 1996 11:51:34 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Mark Diekhans cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with AHA 1542W on 2.2-BETA In-Reply-To: <199612300118.RAA08548@osprey.grizzly.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 29 Dec 1996, Mark Diekhans wrote: > >On Sat, 28 Dec 1996, Mark Diekhans wrote: > > > >> Geometry traslation is turned off, but it exhibits the classic geometry > >> translation symptoms. Installs fine, but hangs after the `F1' prompt. > >> This system was previously running SCO, not FreeBSD, so I don't know if this > >> is something with 2-2.BETA, the hardware or something stupid I am doing. > > > >Did you try the classic solution: put a DOS partition on there, run > >sysinstall, delete the DOS partition from sysinstall & install FreeBSD on > >the whole disk? > > I figured out the real geometry with pfdisk.exe. Didn't realize this was > ever a problem with SCSI with translation turn off. SCO managed to work just > fine with the bogus geometry. FreeBSD is touchy about disk geometry no matter what disk type. The MSDOS partition method is the best, especially if you're using booteasy, since booteasy will throw a fit if you don't use the geometry its expecting, even though FreeBSD agrees with you. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major