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Date:      Thu, 15 Jun 1995 11:26:03 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
To:        rashid@haven.ios.com (Rashid Karimov.)
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: HD Geometry dirty trick
Message-ID:  <199506151826.LAA03037@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
In-Reply-To: <199506151324.JAA24680@haven.ios.com> from "Rashid Karimov." at Jun 15, 95 09:24:35 am

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> 
> 		Hi there folx,
> 
> 
> 	I've found that using "basic" geometry of 1023/64/32
> 	for SCSI HD with  1Gb capacity and just adjusting the first
> 	value for other capacities , one can get painless install .
> 	Foe example , if you install 4Gb HDD - we multiply 1023 by 4
> 	and use 4092/64/32 Geometry.
> 	For 300Mb SCSI disk we use (Int(1023/3.3))/64/32 and so on.

Fine for Adaptec controllers, not so fine for NCR controllers that
like to tranlate >1G drives to xxxx/62/34, yes that is right 62/34!


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Rod Grimes                                      rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com
Accurate Automation Company                   Custom computers for FreeBSD



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