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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

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