From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 5 15:30:22 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93DAD16A4BF for ; Fri, 5 Sep 2003 15:30:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mtaw4.prodigy.net (mtaw4.prodigy.net [64.164.98.52]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DE2D43FEC for ; Fri, 5 Sep 2003 15:30:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jleone@pacbell.net) Received: from pacbell.net (adsl-66-124-255-103.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [66.124.255.103]) by mtaw4.prodigy.net (8.12.9/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h85MUHpW010361; Fri, 5 Sep 2003 15:30:18 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3F590CED.6010802@pacbell.net> Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 15:23:41 -0700 From: James Leone User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jhorvath@frabill.com References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.1 & WD 80.0GB SE Drive Geometry X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 22:30:22 -0000 Jim wrote: >Let me start by qualifying I am extremely new to FreeBSD (I have performed a >whopping two installs thus far). > >I am looking to fire up a machine with a single western digital special >edition 80GB IDE drive for simple storage and testing. > >The BIOS detects the correct geometry for the drive, and both Windows 2000 >and Linux (RedHat 9) correctly detect the geometry and install on the drive >(each OS installed independently to verify the drive and BIOS were working - >this is not a multi-boot setup). > >FreeBSD version 5.1 however, pops up a message stating the geometry chosen >by FreeBSD during installation is incorrect. > >If I hit "G" when assigning the slices and drop in the correct geometry (as >reported by the BIOS), I can assign slices (defaults) and the installation >runs through, but it will fail on the next boot (won't even get to the boot >manager). > >If I select "G" when assigning slices, plug in the values, then force a >write using the "W" option, I get a warning, then everything installs and >fails on reboot. > >Note: This same machine will accept an installation and run beautifully >using a different hard drive (anything I have other than a Western Digital >80GB Special Edition), and I have tried two of the 80GB special edition >drives to ensure it is not a mechanical problem with just one of the drives. >Both of the special edition drives performed identically (which is to say >not at all). > >Google is mute on the subject. > >Any help would be appreciated. > >Jim > All I can say is that the same thing happened to me. James Leone > >