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Subject: Re: Hard drive geometry headache (slightly off topic)
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> I am guessing freebsd works out the correct drive geometry, but the bios
> is not! Interestingly though, when set to LBA, the head/cyl/sector count
> is equal to what the freebsd fdisk detects it to be.

This is exactly what I was experiencing. Thought I'd throw that out there,
best of luck to you.