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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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Subject: Re: SCSI Drive Geometry
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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