From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 16 12:55:19 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8496916A41C for ; Thu, 16 Jun 2005 12:55:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from tim.des.no (tim.des.no [194.63.250.121]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1AD443D49 for ; Thu, 16 Jun 2005 12:55:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from tim.des.no (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spam.des.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 430CF60FC; Thu, 16 Jun 2005 14:55:10 +0200 (CEST) Received: from xps.des.no (des.no [80.203.228.37]) by tim.des.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E8BD60F9; Thu, 16 Jun 2005 14:55:10 +0200 (CEST) Received: by xps.des.no (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 1B03333C52; Thu, 16 Jun 2005 14:55:10 +0200 (CEST) To: "Jonathan Gilpin" References: <003601c570d3$8f51cbc0$62c4033e@JONATHAN> From: des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=) Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 14:55:10 +0200 In-Reply-To: <003601c570d3$8f51cbc0$62c4033e@JONATHAN> (Jonathan Gilpin's message of "Tue, 14 Jun 2005 12:23:59 +0100") Message-ID: <86is0e4g29.fsf@xps.des.no> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Spam-Learn: ham X-Spam-Score: -5.2/5.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 (2004-11-16) on tim.des.no Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Netcell SyncRaid SR3000/SR5000 FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 12:55:19 -0000 "Jonathan Gilpin" writes: > The raid array does appear to be detected however when I use the fisk > utility durring the installation it complains about the drive geometry. > > FreeBSD detects: Cyl/Hd/Sect 94415/255/63 > > The utility suggests using 911534/104/16 I agree to this and it then says > that this suggest geometry is invalid. I continue and when it comes to > make the new file system it gives the time out errors above and then comp= lains > it cannot write to the disk. These problems are unrelated. FreeBSD does not care about drive geometry. The reason fdisk(1) mentions it is that the geometry (or actually a fake but plausible geometry - modern disks can't be accurately described in terms of C/H/S) is encoded in the MBR for legacy reasons. If the numbers in the MBR are wrong, the BIOS may be unable to load FreeBSD from disk when it boots. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no