Date: Wed, 22 Nov 1995 00:37:32 +0000 () From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: dougg@ti.com (Doug Glazar) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SCSI install Message-ID: <199511220037.AAA23951@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199511211654.KAA10929@gate.ti.com> from "Doug Glazar" at Nov 21, 95 10:54:36 am
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Doug Glazar stands accused of saying: > 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 That's newfs, not fdisk, and the error is harmless. > 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). > > 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. What problems are you actually having? So far it sounds like your panicking over a diagnostic message. > Doug Glazar -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 041-122-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "Who does BSD?" "We do Chucky, we do." [[
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