Date: Thu, 7 Dec 1995 22:59:17 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com> To: andrew@micksquadra.its.utas.edu.au (Andrew Stevenson) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Geometry of second scsi Message-ID: <199512080659.WAA29460@ref.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: <30C8E1E9.E2B@micksquadra.its.utas.edu.au> from "Andrew Stevenson" at Dec 8, 95 05:10:01 pm
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Ignore the warning messages.. use the 'G' option to tell the install to use tha same sectors/heads geometry that DOS gave hte first drive. (obviously if ht edrives a re differnt the # cyls will be different) you PROBABLY want 64heads x 32 sectors x N cyls (cyls is not important) > > Hi, > > We are trying to install freebsd 2.1. We have 2 scsi drives. We have low > level formatted both through the bios. When we go to partitioning our disks > in the installer, it tells us we have invalid disk geometry. To get around > this, we boot under dos and use f-disk to create a 1mb dos partition on the > first disk. This stops the installer complaining about invalid geometry on > disk 1, but not on disk 2. Unfortunatley, dos can't see the second disk to > create a partition on it. > > The second disk is a Conner CFP1080S 1GB. The drive is marked as having 3658 > cylinders, 6 heads and 66-120 sectors. The accompanying litrature claims it > has 2794 cylinders, 8 heads and 72-114 sectors. We have tried telling > freebsd installer all of these numbers (manually trying each value between 66 > and 120 for 3658/6 and each value between 72 and 114 for 2794/8). :-( > > The installer said ALL of these values were incorrect. :~( > > Any ideas? > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > The Lamers @ Hobart College > (Home page unavailable due to failure of second scsi drive) >
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