From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 24 10:13:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA24840 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 24 Oct 1998 10:13:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.insolwwb.net (ns.insolwwb.net [206.31.149.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA24835 for ; Sat, 24 Oct 1998 10:13:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mgrommet@insolwwb.net) Received: from work2.insolwwb.net (work2.insolwwb.net [208.150.248.12]) by ns.insolwwb.net (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA23483 for ; Sat, 24 Oct 1998 12:03:02 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <001301bdff70$8670c780$0cf896d0@work2.insolwwb.net> From: "Mike Grommet" To: Subject: Drive Geometry for An IBM Ultrastar 9LP???? Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 12:05:38 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.5 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi guys... needing to install freebsd on a machine with one of these drives, however when I go into the novice setup, freebsd gripes about the drive geometry being bad (drive geometry is 8152/10/220) and fills in an odd looking drive geometry of 1115/255/63.... It seems fairly slow when it goes to newfs the partitions though... freebsd seems to install ok, but this machine is going to be a usenet news server, so of course drive speed is of great importantance... what should I do to get freebsd to recognize the drive geometry properly? Mike Grommet System Admin, and all around nice guy Internet Solutions, Inc. mgrommet@insolwwb.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message