Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 00:01:12 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: John Clark <email@john.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SCSI Drive Geometry Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970318000051.1602X-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970317024201.00a8bdb0@199.3.74.250>
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On Mon, 17 Mar 1997, John Clark wrote: > I have spent the last two days trying to determine a compatible drive > geometry for my SCSI disks. I have a 2GB Seagate ST12400N and a 1GB > Seagate ST31230N. The _correct_ geometry for the first disk is: 2621/19/83 > and the _correct_ geometry for the second is: 3992/5/103. See below. > > http://web1.seagate.com:80/cgi-bin/view.cgi?/scsi/st12400n.txt > http://web1.seagate.com:80/cgi-bin/view.cgi?/scsi/st31230n.txt > > The FreeBSD install utility complains saying that the drive geometry is > incorrect, and resets to 261/255/63. Ok, but the install fails with a > "Page Fault." When I try other geometries, ie. 1024/128/32 I get much > better results and sometimes make it through the install. The success is > short lived as when paging occurs, so does another page fault (panic). > > Does anyone have advice on this topic? I am not sure that I understand > what gives here! Have you tried not changing it? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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