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From: Snob Art Genre <ben@narcissus.ml.org>
To: Cyrus Gray <cgray@speakeasy.org>
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Subject: Re: Atlas SCSI 3 Drive GEO
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On Wed, 11 Dec 1996, Cyrus Gray wrote:

> I have a 4.3 Gig atlas Wide SCSI 3 drive (Model M343xx)
> plugged into an Adaptec 2940UW
> 
> When setting up FreeBSD I get a message that it can't 
> get the drive Geometry.  No biggy I've had this sort of
> thing happen before.  So I went to Quantums Homepage
> and got the drive geo plugged it in and it still gives me
> the same error.  Has anyone else gotten one of these to work?
> If so what drive GEO did you use?
> 
> 
> Thanks
> Cyrus Gray
> 
> 

Sometimes it helps if you create a small DOS partition at the beginning 
of your hard drive.


 Ben

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