From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 3 13:32:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA09335 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 3 Feb 1998 13:32:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA09303 for ; Tue, 3 Feb 1998 13:32:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA13598; Tue, 3 Feb 1998 13:32:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 13:32:17 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Bruce Albrecht cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: raw partition size != slice slice In-Reply-To: <199802021445.IAA03585@zuhause.mn.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe questions" 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