From owner-freebsd-current Tue Dec 17 10:59:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF83737B401 for ; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 10:59:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from rootlabs.com (root.org [67.118.192.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EF0E943EB2 for ; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 10:59:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@rootlabs.com) Received: (qmail 49984 invoked by uid 1000); 17 Dec 2002 18:59:37 -0000 Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 10:59:37 -0800 (PST) From: Nate Lawson To: Cliff Sarginson Cc: FreeBSD Current Subject: Re: SCSI Bios complaints and Disk Slices In-Reply-To: <20021217053758.GA56632@raggedclown.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > Windows .. fine, I installed Linux .. fine. Then I installed > FreeBSD...fine *but* the SCSI BIOS on bootup complains that the disk > geometry is all cockeyed, and it looks that way from what it says. > It warns any non-DOS O/S may have problems using it. > Well I have had no problems, and fdisk makes no complaints. What has > happened to upset the SCSI BIOS ? The thing it seems to hate is that it > is getting 63 heads reported instead of 64. > It is a Tekram 390 U/W controller, with an IBM 18MB U160 disk. > There have never been any other complaints about the 1st SCSI disk. > Diagnostics show no problems. One thing to check is that you should have ">1GB drive support" enabled. This needs to be done before installing. See the archives for freebsd-scsi list. I am not familiar with trm(4) so perhaps Oliver can fill in more. -Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message