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Date:      Sat, 28 Apr 2001 09:31:15 +1000 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        Lev Serebryakov <Lev.Serebryakov@arcadia.spb.ru>
Cc:        All <freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Problems with two equal HDDs
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0104280928160.6088-100000@besplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <102933852198.20010427135836@arcadia.spb.ru>

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On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Lev Serebryakov wrote:

>   I need to install FreeBSD 4.3 on computer with two equal HDDs IBM
>   DTLA 307030. HDDs was bought in one store, in one time.
>   BIOS sees this disks with same geometry, but FreeBSD's fdsik sees it
>   as:
>    ad0  -- 3737/255/63
>    ad2  -- 59560/16/63  (BIOS show this for both,and HDD's stickers says this)
> 
>   But I need to use these HDDs for mirror, so I need equal geometry.
>   Ok, I know, about [G] button in fdisk, but I want understand -- Why
>   these HDDs are detected differently by fdisk?!

fdisk doesn't sees the geometry in the partition table, if any.  ad0
probably has a (nonempty) partition table and ad2 probably doesn't.

Bruce


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