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Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 12:15:03 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: MGStu Admin <rjn103s@mgr3.k12.mo.us>
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Subject: Re: Geometry settings and New Drive (Confused!) Help w/ slices 
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On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, 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

Whatever you do, DON'T TOUCH THE GEOMETRY!  Even if the installer says
it's wrong, LEAVE IT.

> 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

Can you quote the _exact_ text, please?

Doug White                               
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