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From: Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com>
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Subject: Re: SCSI install
To: dougg@ti.com (Doug Glazar)
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 1995 12:57:33 -0800 (PST)
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In-Reply-To: <199511211654.KAA10929@gate.ti.com> from "Doug Glazar" at Nov 21, 95 10:54:36 am
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> 
> Help me pleeeeeeeze!  I don't want to HAVE to install Leenucks!
> 
> I'm having trouble fdisk'ing and labeling my Seagate 31200N drive.
> Probe sees my Trantor T130B just fine and subsequently identifies my scsi 
> hardrive and cdrom.
> 
> Switching to the debug screen during fdisk shows a warning about the 
> calculated sectors/cylinder not matching the disk label.  For the root file 
> system the calculated value is 4096 versus 2016.  For the usr file system 
> the calculated value is 2554 (versus 2016).  The disk geometry reported by 
> fdisk is CORRECT! (1022 cyl/63 hd/32 sec).

you can totally ignore these Warnings and proceeed

> 
> What can I do?  I've tried Leenucks (I CAN install it on the scsi drive 
> with some hand tweeks during fdisk) but don't like it - I was using FreeBSD 
> on an IDE drive before I "upgraded" to SCSI.

does it actually fail?
these warnings should have no effect....


> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Doug Glazar
> dougg@ti.com
> 
> 
> 
>