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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org, scot@ece.rutgers.edu
Subject: Re: Adaptec 2940 and 2.1.5
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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