Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 13:32:17 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Bruce Albrecht <bruce@zuhause.mn.org> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: raw partition size != slice slice Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980203133056.13454N-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199802021445.IAA03585@zuhause.mn.org>
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On Mon, 2 Feb 1998, Bruce Albrecht wrote: > I just got a Seagate Hawk scsi drive that I want to use strictly for > FreeBSD. The number of sectors available reported by disklabel (838733) > does not match the (# cylinders) * (tracks/cylinder) * (sectors/track) > (9595 * 19 * 46 ) as reported by disklabel. Is this basically meaningless? Yes. Don't worry about geometry to start with. You can help the situation by putting a small DOS slice on the disk to relay the proper geometry to sysinstall, then delete the slice or use dedicated mode as you like. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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