From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 11 19:27:53 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id TAA14315 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 11 Jul 1995 19:27:53 -0700 Received: from dg-rtp.dg.com (dg-rtp.rtp.dg.com [128.222.1.2]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id TAA14306 for ; Tue, 11 Jul 1995 19:27:49 -0700 Received: by dg-rtp.dg.com (5.4R2.01/dg-rtp-v02) id AA23206; Tue, 11 Jul 1995 22:27:14 -0400 Received: from lakes (lakes [192.96.3.39]) by ponds.UUCP (8.6.9/8.6.5) with ESMTP id WAA10469 for ; Tue, 11 Jul 1995 22:08:16 -0400 Received: (from rivers@localhost) by lakes (8.6.11/8.6.9) id WAA05288 for freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com; Tue, 11 Jul 1995 22:11:24 -0400 Date: Tue, 11 Jul 1995 22:11:24 -0400 From: Thomas David Rivers Message-Id: <199507120211.WAA05288@lakes> To: freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: A problem with disklabel & "use entire disk" on 2.0.5R. Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I've been meaning to mention this since 2.0.5R was available. I found that (using the standard MBR) and selecting "use entire disk" for my SCSI drive caused problems. Well - the real story is that the installation assumed I didn't want the BIOS translated geometry (as translated by the Adaptec 1542B) - and I went through the entire install using the SCSI geometry... only to find the system wouldn't boot. I *had* to use the translated geometry to get anything to boot. (Probably since the translated geometry came up with something like 395 sectors - or some screwy number like that, certainly not the "17" that DOS, and boot records, are accustomed to...) Now, my question is - does using that geometry cost me anything, particularly speed wise. I had intended on testing this question myself (using iozone) but I can't boot the system in untranslated mode. What's been the experience in this area? - Dave Rivers -