From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 19 08:22:19 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id IAA22986 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 19 Oct 1995 08:22:19 -0700 Received: from aslan.cdrom.com (aslan.cdrom.com [192.216.223.142]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id IAA22979 for ; Thu, 19 Oct 1995 08:22:14 -0700 Received: from localhost.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by aslan.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id IAA03000; Thu, 19 Oct 1995 08:21:50 -0700 Message-Id: <199510191521.IAA03000@aslan.cdrom.com> X-Authentication-Warning: aslan.cdrom.com: Host localhost.cdrom.com didn't use HELO protocol To: kallio@jyu.fi (Seppo Kallio) cc: "Justin T. Gibbs" , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem with 2940 PCI + 4G SEAGATE ST15230N In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 19 Oct 1995 09:56:07 +0300." Date: Thu, 19 Oct 1995 08:21:50 -0700 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" 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: 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 ===========================================