From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 27 01:45:47 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6E3816A41F for ; Tue, 27 Dec 2005 01:45:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nospam@apriori.net) Received: from modena360.cwihosting.com (modena360.cwihosting.com [209.18.76.204]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41B7C43D46 for ; Tue, 27 Dec 2005 01:45:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nospam@apriori.net) Received: from apriori by modena360.cwihosting.com with local (Exim 4.52) id 1Er3uM-0003p3-01 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 26 Dec 2005 20:45:46 -0500 Received: from 127.0.0.1 ([127.0.0.1]) (SquirrelMail authenticated user nospam@apriori.net) by www.apriori.net with HTTP; Mon, 26 Dec 2005 20:45:45 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <43514.127.0.0.1.1135647945.squirrel@www.apriori.net> In-Reply-To: <20051226164848.0F9A416A429@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20051226164848.0F9A416A429@hub.freebsd.org> Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2005 20:45:45 -0500 (EST) From: nospam@apriori.net To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - modena360.cwihosting.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [688 689] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - apriori.net X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Subject: That Drive Geometry Bug X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 01:45:47 -0000 I am trying to back up the drive I have been using (which is now full) onto a 60GB Seagate IDE drive - ST360020A. After a bunch of failures at configuring the disk, I did some searching on the web and found some info on the "drive geometry bug". I followed the directions I found there - essentially, go into my BIOS at boot time, write down the drive geometry that the BIOS thinks I have and then plug those numbers into FreeBSD fdisk at the beginning of installation. What happened: 1. FreeBSD complained that the drive geometry it was seeing was wrong, and was using its own best guess: 7297/255/63. 2. I hit "G" and edited the C/H/S to that which the BIOS reported: 28733/16/255. 3. I hit Enter; the installer said `Nope, you're wrong! I'm going to use my best guess instead!' No matter how many times I try to enter the info, it changes it back to whatever it thinks is more correct. I tried switching the head and sector info (trying 28733/255/16). but no joy. Is there a way to coax the installer into cooperating? Thanks - -- paz.