Date: Sat, 20 Jul 1996 15:15:41 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org, scot@ece.rutgers.edu Cc: bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adaptec 2940 and 2.1.5 Message-ID: <199607200515.PAA18750@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>What geometry are telling FreeBSD during the installation? It should
>either be 64 heads/32 sectors per track/#MB reported by FreeBSD cylinders
>or 255/64/#MB/7 cylinders. Use the 255 geometry if you have a > 1gig drive
^^ 63 ^ (very important)
|__ 7.844238 (not very important; 7 gives a completely
bogus result but the result probably isn't
used)
>AND have extended translation turned on in SCSI-Select, otherwise use the
>64 one.
Bruce
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