Date: Tue, 14 May 1996 20:09:35 -0600 (MDT) From: John-David Childs <jdc@ism.net> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: disktab for Micropolis 4221-09/2112-15???? Message-ID: <Pine.BSD/.3.91.960514200437.18382A-100000@optim.ism.net> In-Reply-To: <199605110932.TAA12546@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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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"
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