From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 19 00:50:55 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id AAA13494 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 19 Oct 1995 00:50:55 -0700 Received: from cc.jyu.fi (root@cc.jyu.fi [130.234.1.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id AAA13487 for ; Thu, 19 Oct 1995 00:50:51 -0700 Received: from [130.234.41.39] (zaphod.maccc.jyu.fi) by cc.jyu.fi with SMTP id AA01578 (5.67a/IDA-1.4.4 for questions@freebsd.org); Thu, 19 Oct 1995 09:54:12 +0200 X-Sender: kallio@pop.jyu.fi Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 19 Oct 1995 09:56:07 +0300 To: "Justin T. Gibbs" , kallio@jyu.fi (Seppo Kallio) From: kallio@jyu.fi (Seppo Kallio) Subject: Re: Problem with 2940 PCI + 4G SEAGATE ST15230N Cc: questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk At 13:41 18/10/95, Justin T. Gibbs wrote: >It sounds like you don't have the prober geometry set up on this >drive. The translation should be 64 heads, 32 sectors/track, >#MB cylinders in normal translation or 255,63,#MB/7 if you have >extended translation enabled in SCSI-Select. Use the #MB reported >by the disk probe for these calculations. You should set the >geometry using the eometry option in the partition editor of >the installation program. I think the geometry is OK. Here fdisk output of the disk: kaarna# fdisk /dev/sd1 ******* Working on device /dev/sd1 ******* parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=3992 heads=64 sectors/track=32 (2048 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=3992 heads=64 sectors/track=32 (2048 blks/cyl) Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 0 is: sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 32, size 8386528 (4094 Meg), flag 80 beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 1; end: cyl 1023/ sector 32/ head 63 The data for partition 1 is: The data for partition 2 is: The data for partition 3 is: In boot the error message was something like (I have seen this) F? ... BSD Interrupt? I am sure it was (*=unsure character). ** ... BSD ********? Here disklabel: kaarna# disklabel sd1 # /dev/rsd1c: type: SCSI disk: sd0s1 label: flags: bytes/sector: 512 sectors/track: 32 tracks/cylinder: 64 sectors/cylinder: 2048 cylinders: 4094 sectors/unit: 8386528 rpm: 3600 interleave: 1 trackskew: 0 cylinderskew: 0 headswitch: 0 # milliseconds track-to-track seek: 0 # milliseconds drivedata: 0 8 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 65536 0 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 31) b: 153456 65536 swap # (Cyl. 32 - 106*) c: 8386528 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 4094*) e: 61440 218992 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 106*- 136) f: 8106096 280432 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 136*- 4094*) 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 -- +