From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 14 18:41:07 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5F091065674 for ; Fri, 14 Mar 2008 18:41:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from itz@mushinsky.net) Received: from mu-out-0910.google.com (mu-out-0910.google.com [209.85.134.191]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23AFF8FC13 for ; Fri, 14 Mar 2008 18:41:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from itz@mushinsky.net) Received: by mu-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id w9so4504537mue.6 for ; Fri, 14 Mar 2008 11:41:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.147.6 with SMTP id u6mr31658946hud.13.1205520059878; Fri, 14 Mar 2008 11:40:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.139.1 with HTTP; Fri, 14 Mar 2008 11:40:59 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 14:40:59 -0400 From: "Isaac Mushinsky" To: "Alex Zbyslaw" In-Reply-To: <47DAC420.3090806@dial.pipex.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <47DAC420.3090806@dial.pipex.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SATA problems (Abit IP35-Pro) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 18:41:07 -0000 On 3/14/08, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: > > Isaac Mushinsky wrote: > > >If I set SATA controller to AHCI, the system boots (although with some > ACPI > >errors), and I was able to install. However, fdisk thinks that the > geometry > >is "incorrect", and insists on a different one > > > Sysinstall nearly always says this, and undoubtedly sysinstall is > nearly* always correct. Ignore it and move on. > > >(it says the drives have > >476gb rather than 500gb). > > > Manufacturers like to make their disks look bigger by using 1000 instead > of 1024 when scaling Kb to Gb so: > > 476 Gb * 1024 * 1024 = 499122176K bytes > > 500 "Gb" * 1000 * 1000 = 500000000K bytes > > which is near as dammit the same. > > --Alex > > *In ten years of FreeBSD I have seen the warning many times, and seen > people asking about the warning many, many, many times. What I never > remember seeing is any case where someone needed to do anything about > that warning. That doesn't prove anything (my memory is of unknown > reliability), but you have my word that it's not *that* bad :-) > > > > Thanks. I thought so about the size, just wondered whether there is anything wrong with the geometry warning. I don't remember encountering it before. Although I use FreeBSD since 2.x, my last sysinstall was many years ago.