From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 8 16:30:42 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id QAA21724 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 8 Aug 1995 16:30:42 -0700 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA21716 for ; Tue, 8 Aug 1995 16:30:39 -0700 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id JAA26776; Wed, 9 Aug 1995 09:22:08 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199508082352.JAA26776@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Adaptec 2742W and Seagate 43xxxxN To: mar7@cec.wustl.edu (Matt Rosenberg) Date: Wed, 9 Aug 1995 09:22:08 +0930 (CST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <9508081816.AA17936@cec.wustl.edu> from "Matt Rosenberg" at Aug 8, 95 01:16:16 pm Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1058 Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Matt Rosenberg stands accused of saying: > found a device sd0, but it incorrectly reads it as 6GB. (It > flies by too fast to read the exact geometry if it does in fact > show it.) On ttyv1 I get the following error message: You can hit ScrollLock and use the cursor keys to scroll the console back to read messages like that. > Physcially the disk has about 2600 cylinders, but under DOS the > BIOS (Award) supported LBA shows the following geometry: > 354 cylinders, 255 sides, and 63 sectors per track You need to set the geometry in the disklabeller to match the BIOS geometry; otherwise the bootstrap won't find the beginning of the root filesystem. > Matt Rosenberg -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" - Terry Lambert [[