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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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