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