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Subject: Re: Geometry settings and New Drive (Confused!) Help w/ slices
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You are confusing MB with 1,000,000 bytes. The former is what FreeBSD
is reporting and 10^6 bytes is what you purchased. A MB=1,048,576
bytes = 1,024 x 1,024 bytes. 10.24/1.048 = 9.76MB.

Kent

MGStu Admin wrote:
> 
> Greetings All,
> 
> I am trying to add a 10.24 gig hard drive (fujitsu MPC3102ATE) to a
> new box running 3.1 and all is well except I am getting lots of
> confusing feedback and can not seem to get the drive sliced to use
> the full size.
> 
> 
> In cmos I have it set for LBA mode and these default to 1244/255/63
> for the cylinders/head/sector settings
> (I have always used the cmos suggestion whith other drives in the
> past)
> 10.24 gig
> 
> 
> 
> The drive  documentation says 16383/16/63    8.45 gig for normal
> mode and 10.24 in LBA mode
> 
> 
> FreeBSD 3.1 thinks 19841/16/63    9.765 gig
> 
> 
> I think the size issue  is causing my problem when I try to make it
> into 3 (wd2s1e, f, g) slices, the first 2 work but the third says:
> 
> an error mount /dev/wd2s1g/usr3  : invalid argument
> 
> I am doing the work from /stand/sysinstall
> 
> I am trying to setup two 4 gig slices (this works) and the remainder
> on the third slice (always fails).
> 
> 
> I am confused to the highest degree.  Could someone with more
> knowledge help and offer suggestions on how I can get the full drive
> size setup.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks!!
> 
> --
> Richard Nelson
> FreeBSD WorkStation
> Technology Department
> Research & Development
> FreeBSD + Samba = Free PDC!
> 
> 

-- 
Kent Stewart
Richland, WA


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