From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 30 04:14:00 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id EAA26334 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 30 Aug 1995 04:14:00 -0700 Received: from gndrsh.aac.dev.com (gndrsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id EAA26325 for ; Wed, 30 Aug 1995 04:13:52 -0700 Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by gndrsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id EAA07934; Wed, 30 Aug 1995 04:13:22 -0700 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199508301113.EAA07934@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: pilot error on my part or feedback on the 2.1 snap To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1995 04:13:22 -0700 (PDT) Cc: hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org, kaleb@x.org In-Reply-To: <199508300946.TAA30070@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Aug 30, 95 07:46:47 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1150 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > >But even more confounding is, when it finally seems willing to write > >the label, to have the kernel panic with the message "biodone: buffer > >not busy", sync the disk and reboot. So far this has happened several > >times and I have been otherwise unsuccessful in installing. > > That was a bug in the SNAP. > > >Is this somehow a pilot error or should I fall back to 2.0.5? > > Label with 2.0.5, then install the SNAP. > > >is an AC31200F. The disk itself is, as I recall, a Seagate Barracuda, > >1222 meg drive, actual geometry reported during the boot probe is 2484 > >Cyl, 16 H, 63 Sec, CMOS geometry is 621 Cyl, 64 H, 64 Sec. This machine > > 63 sectors in the CMOS? c/h/s format only goes up to sector 63. Sector numbers in fdisk are 1 based, not 0 based. This is due to DOS's same brain damage which was copied into mach, which was then copied into FreeBSD. Someone should go kill: Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 and remove the 1 bias in fdisk. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD