From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 14 23:31:44 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id XAA26965 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 14 Jun 1995 23:31:44 -0700 Received: from mail.Germany.EU.net (mail.Germany.EU.net [192.76.144.65]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id XAA26959 for ; Wed, 14 Jun 1995 23:31:42 -0700 Received: by mail.Germany.EU.net with UUCP (8.6.5:29/EUnetD-2.5.1.g) via EUnet id IAA20365; Thu, 15 Jun 1995 08:33:30 +0200 Received: from smiley.interface-business.de by interface-business.de with SMTP (8.6.9/GEN-1.1.5) via EUnet for unido id IAA19322; Thu, 15 Jun 1995 08:33:26 +0200 Message-Id: <9506150630.AA10681@smiley.interface-business.de> Received: by smiley.interface-business.de with UUCP (4.1/GEN-1.1.5) via EUnet for innocence id AA10681; Thu, 15 Jun 95 08:30:25 MST Subject: disk geometry 2GB disks To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 15 Jun 1995 08:30:25 +0200 (MST) From: "Joerg Weber" Cc: joerg@smiley.interface-business.de (Joerg Weber) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 1679 Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk during the installation of FreeBSD 2.0.5 we have problems with booting from a 2 GB Seagate ST32430N Fast-SCSI-2 disk. The SCSI controller is a Adaptec 2940. After creating a bootable partition with a 200 MB root file system and installation of the core system the boot manager has no access to the partition. All modification of the logical disk geometry have the same result. Is there some information abort this problem and is solution? The physical geometry of the disk is: cylinders: 3992 heads: 9 sectorsper track: 119 unformatted capacity: 2590 MB formatted capacity: 2140 MB -- Sincerely, Joerg Weber _|_|_|_|_|_|_| ------------------------------------ _|_|_|_|_|_|_| _| |_|_|_|_| interface business GmbH _| |_|_|_|_| _|_ _|_|_|_|_| c/o Joerg Weber _|_ _|_|_|_|_| _|_|_|_|_|_|_| Tolkewitzer Strasse 49 _|_|_|_|_|_|_| _| |_|_|_|_| D-01277 D R E S D E N _| |_|_|_|_| _| |_|_|_|_| ------------------------------------ _| |_|_|_|_| _| _ |_| Telefon: ++49-351-33 61 186 _| _ |_| _| |_| |_| Telefax: ++49-351-33 61 187 _| |_| |_| _| |_| |_| Modem : dto., 8-N-1, max. 28800 Bd _| |_| |_| _|_ _ _ _ _|_| E-Mail : joerg@interface-business.de _|_ _ _ _ _|_| _|_|_|_|_|_|_| ------------------------------------ _|_|_|_|_|_|_| Es gibt auf der Welt nur zwei Tragoedien. Die eine ist, dass man nicht bekommt, was man sich wuenscht, und die zweite, dass man es bekommt. (Oscar Wilde)