From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 20 12:52:46 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA09817 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 20 Apr 1997 12:52:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from obie.softweyr.ml.org ([199.104.124.49]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA09802 for ; Sun, 20 Apr 1997 12:52:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from wes@localhost) by obie.softweyr.ml.org (8.7.5/8.6.12) id MAA07886; Sun, 20 Apr 1997 12:56:43 -0600 (MDT) Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 12:56:43 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199704201856.MAA07886@obie.softweyr.ml.org> From: Wes Peters To: Kevin Eliuk CC: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re:OOPS: Question on preparing for Re-Install In-Reply-To: References: Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Kevin Eliuk writes: > > wdc0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14 on isa > > wdc0: unit 0 (wd0): > > wd0: 1036MB (2121840 sectors), 2105 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, > > 512 B/S > > (LBA OnTrack 7.04) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ This may just be what bit your original installation; you cannot use "LBA" mode with FreeBSD. You *must* tell FreeBSD the *real* geometry of the disk. > I've done the re-install and Although I don't have the original of your > reply I remember your comment about "another Maxtor drive failing" well > I'm pleased (although slightly embarassed) to say it was "another Maxtor > owner failure to read all the instructions" failure :-! I've not had any more problems with Maxtor disks than any other brand. > Everything seems hunky dory, ran lmbench without a crash but I gather > without more memory it dogs down in the in the latency tests because its > defaults are minimum 8MB. Is this true? Yeah, 5 meg is pretty minimal for FreeBSD. I recently upgraded from 16M to 32M because I was tired of paging while running Emacs and Netscape under X! ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com