From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Nov 18 21:24:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E10D37B401 for ; Mon, 18 Nov 2002 21:24:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from spider.netmails.net (dsl-65-189-239-65.telocity.com [65.189.239.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 93DE943E4A for ; Mon, 18 Nov 2002 21:24:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from subscr@spider.netmails.net) Received: (qmail 43095 invoked by uid 1014); 19 Nov 2002 05:23:38 -0000 Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 23:23:38 -0600 From: Hari Bhaskaran To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: problems detecting drive dimensions for maxtor 120GB ide/ata Message-ID: <20021118232338.A43068@spider.netmails.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, I have a maxtor 120GB IDE disk on a Supermicro P4SBE mother board. The bios reports the size of the hard disk as (Total size: 122 GB -- close enough!) Cylinder: 58853 Head: 16 Precomp: 0 Landing zone: 58852 Sector: 255 FreeBSD 4.7 install reports the error message. "WARNING: A geometry of 238216/16/63 for ad0 is incorrect. Using a more likely geometry." It appears to be correct (although the bios reported different values) when I refer to http://www.maxtor.com/en/documentation/quick_specs/diamondmax_plus_9_quick_specs.pdf So what am I missing? Is the BIOS wrong? I am already at the latest BIOS (1.0c) for P4SBE (ref: http://www.supermicro.com/TECHSUPPORT/BIOS/bios.htm ) Any help is appreciated. Motherboard details are at http://www.supermicro.com/PRODUCT/MotherBoards/845/P4SBE.htm -- Hari Bhaskaran To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message