From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 15 00:55:05 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id AAA28771 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 15 Jun 1995 00:55:05 -0700 Received: from cc.jyu.fi (root@cc.jyu.fi [130.234.0.6]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id AAA28752 for ; Thu, 15 Jun 1995 00:54:33 -0700 Received: from [130.234.41.39] (zaphod.maccc.jyu.fi) by cc.jyu.fi with SMTP id AA20731 (5.67a/IDA-1.4.4 for questions@freebsd.org); Thu, 15 Jun 1995 10:54:58 +0300 X-Sender: kallio@pop.jyu.fi Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 15 Jun 1995 10:55:20 +0300 To: "Joerg Weber" From: kallio@jyu.fi (Seppo Kallio) Subject: Re: disk geometry 2GB disks Cc: questions@freebsd.org 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. >The physical geometry of the disk is: > > cylinders: 3992 > heads: 9 > sectorsper track: 119 > unformatted capacity: 2590 MB > formatted capacity: 2140 MB I have used geometry 2049/64/32 (http://www.jyu.fi/~kallio/atk/OS/FreeBSD) with the same disk and controller. I did make a small DOS partition (with DOS FDISK) and then run FreeBSD install (as instructed in install docs). Then install did use this geometry. After install no problems. Seppo -- +-- Seppo Kallio ----- kallio@jyu.fi ---+ ! Computing Center ! Fax +358-41-603611 Phone +358-41-603606 ! ! University of Jyvaskyla ! http://www.jyu.fi/~kallio ! +-- Finland --+-- 62.14N 25.44E -- +