From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 12 17:19:30 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFD7F37B401 for ; Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:19:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.contemplation.org (adsl-207-212-133-17.dsl.scrm01.pacbell.net [207.212.133.17]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE7EE43FB1 for ; Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:19:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from christopher@contemplation.org) Received: by mail.contemplation.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 8C6D1122AC9; Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:19:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.contemplation.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85C15191223 for ; Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:19:22 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:19:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Christopher Turner X-X-Sender: drumline@thought To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20030412171001.X73278@thought> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: HD Geometry Issue... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 00:19:30 -0000 Hello, I have two 40Gig Seagate Baracuda IV's. The physical drive is 1023/256/63 The BIOS detects it at 1024/255/63 The detection upon bootup detects it somewhere around 77,000(estimate)/255/63 The install program on the floppies said that 77,000 was wrong and that it's attempting to use a more likely geometry of 45,000(estimate)/255/63. The install program suggested that i should try what the BIOS detected the drive as first before i accepted it's recommended geometry. I did that and it failed to write properly. I then tried installing with what it wanted to use instead - the 45,000 figure. It accepted data fine, but now when i software reboot, the machine sounds a case alarm when the BIOS is set to boot from a BSD-installed drive. I then blew away the OS and installed Win2k to run the HD tools. It booted fine to 2k. I then tried to boot to the second drive that had BSD installed. Case alarm again! Could this be a geometry issue? Does anyone have some insight that they could offer? Are there issues with Seagate Baracudas & BSD? Will it hurt the harddrive if i tried many different geometries? Thanks! -- Christopher Turner christopher@contemplation.org