From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 16 12:16:58 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96DB9106566C; Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:16:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF76A8FC0C; Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:16:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (ppp121-45-33-22.lns10.adl2.internode.on.net [121.45.33.22]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m3GCGruU060168 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 16 Apr 2008 21:46:55 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 21:46:15 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1367922.dNNBu1mc8j"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200804162146.24665.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -2.212 () BAYES_00,RDNS_DYNAMIC X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: stable@freebsd.org, Josef Karthauser Subject: Re: AHCI and correct drive geometry? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:16:58 -0000 --nextPart1367922.dNNBu1mc8j Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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 "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart1367922.dNNBu1mc8j Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBIBe4Y5ZPcIHs/zowRAoiuAKCg/S9oDoCfyLWJK0GJ2MYawtNzHQCgmS2u kqPNMr0cMFz1GspwD5rxSpY= =XOZT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1367922.dNNBu1mc8j--