From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue May 14 19:09:43 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA03584 for hardware-outgoing; Tue, 14 May 1996 19:09:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from optim.ism.net ([205.199.12.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA03577; Tue, 14 May 1996 19:09:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from optim.ism.net (jdc@optim.ism.net [205.199.12.2]) by optim.ism.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id UAA18641; Tue, 14 May 1996 20:09:35 -0600 Date: Tue, 14 May 1996 20:09:35 -0600 (MDT) From: John-David Childs To: Michael Smith cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: disktab for Micropolis 4221-09/2112-15???? In-Reply-To: <199605110932.TAA12546@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 11 May 1996, Michael Smith wrote: > The 4221 is a SCSI device. You don't want physical geometry information > info for the drive (it's a ZBR device and doesn't have 'geometry' in > the traditional sense of the word anyway). > > What you want is the BIOS geometry imposed by the SCSI controller you're > using. > After several additional hours of struggle, including implementing suggestions to create a small DOS partition from which FreeBSD would pick up the drive or BIOS geometry...I finally "solved" my problem by getting FreeBSD to use the ENTIRE drive (so that drive geometries wouldn't be calculated/used at all). For whatever reason, FreeBSD just wouldn't work on those drives any other way ("missing operating system")...it probably has something to do with the way the drives were set up under BSDi. Thanks for all the advice! -- John-David Childs www.marsweb.com/www.ism.net System Administrator Internet Services Montana (406)721-6277 & Network Engineer M@RSWeb - Montana's PREMIER Web Site "I used up all my sick days...so I'm calling in dead"