Date: Thu, 19 Oct 1995 08:21:50 -0700 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.FreeBSD.org> To: kallio@jyu.fi (Seppo Kallio) Cc: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.FreeBSD.org>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem with 2940 PCI + 4G SEAGATE ST15230N Message-ID: <199510191521.IAA03000@aslan.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 19 Oct 1995 09:56:07 %2B0300." <v0153052facaba5779e26@[130.234.41.39]>
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>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 <G>eometry option in the partition editor of >>the installation program. > >I think the geometry is OK. Here fdisk output of the disk: This is okay so long as extended translation is *disabled* in SCSI-Select. It defaults to being on. >Seppo -- Justin T. Gibbs =========================================== Software Developer - Walnut Creek CDROM FreeBSD: Turning PCs into workstations ===========================================
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