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Date:      Wed, 16 Apr 2008 21:46:15 +0930
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org, Josef Karthauser <joe.karthauser@geomerics.com>
Subject:   Re: AHCI and correct drive geometry?
Message-ID:  <200804162146.24665.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <F5114451B5F49649A9337243D4F8E46909C472F7@THHS2EXBE1X.hostedservice2.net>
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On Wed, 16 Apr 2008, Josef Karthauser wrote:
> So what's the word on AHCI and bios drive geometry? I'm having a real
> pain of a time trying to get some 750gb sata drives running on my
> FreeBSD7 box in AHCI mode. It doesn't seem to matter what disk
> geometry I suggest to sysinstall, something complains of an invalid
> disk upon booting it.
>
>
>
> Actually, in AHCI mode the bios screen doesn't report any information
> on drive geometry, so all bets appear to be off in giving sysinstall
> the correct figures.

I would think anything this modern would totally ignore CHS and hence=20
any warnings about bogus geometry are in themselves totally bogus.

ie just ignore sysinstalls bleatings.

=2D-=20
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
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