From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Apr 27 16:32:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mailman.zeta.org.au (mailman.zeta.org.au [203.26.10.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B94FE37B422 for ; Fri, 27 Apr 2001 16:32:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bde@zeta.org.au) Received: from bde.zeta.org.au (bde.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.102]) by mailman.zeta.org.au (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA22234; Sat, 28 Apr 2001 09:32:19 +1000 Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 09:31:15 +1000 (EST) From: Bruce Evans X-Sender: bde@besplex.bde.org To: Lev Serebryakov Cc: All Subject: Re: Problems with two equal HDDs In-Reply-To: <102933852198.20010427135836@arcadia.spb.ru> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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