Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2009 10:59:51 -0800 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Peter Steele <psteele@maxiscale.com> Cc: regis505 <regis505@gmail.com>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, "J.D. Bronson" <jd_bronson@sbcglobal.net>, Bernt Hansson <bernt@bah.homeip.net> Subject: Re: geometry does not match label (255h,63s != 16h,63s) Message-ID: <159BAE4B-6BF2-4696-AF66-93A58E42D7CD@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB33D0D87E@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com> References: <26710655.post@talk.nabble.com> <4B1FAE73.9010208@sbcglobal.net> <4B1FEB58.1050408@bah.homeip.net> <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB33D0D87E@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com>
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Hi-- On Dec 9, 2009, at 10:44 AM, Peter Steele wrote: > Add my name to the list--we get tons of these messages since upgrading to 8.0.... This isn't new with 8.x; it's been around since 4.0, if not earlier. For a long time, BIOSes using the older C/H/S addressing mechanism were limited to ~8GB in size, and prior to LBA 48-bit addressing there was a ~130GB size limit. So long as the system is seeing the proper size of the drive, you can safely ignore the messages; if the drive size is not being detected properly, make sure your BIOS is updated, is set to look at drives using LBA mode (rather than C/H/S), and make sure the drive itself doesn't have a jumper limiting it to legacy addressing mode. Most of the time, "you can safely ignore the message" applies and one can ignore the rest the above. :-) Regards, -- -Chuck PS: Now, if 8.x is repeatedly logging these messages, that might be new behavior and worth adjusting.
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