From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 9 18:59:53 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 042311065672 for ; Wed, 9 Dec 2009 18:59:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from asmtpout024.mac.com (asmtpout024.mac.com [17.148.16.99]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1A6F8FC0C for ; Wed, 9 Dec 2009 18:59:52 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Received: from cswiger1.apple.com ([17.227.140.124]) by asmtp024.mac.com (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-8.01 (built Dec 16 2008; 32bit)) with ESMTPSA id <0KUE00GHGFFR8440@asmtp024.mac.com> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 09 Dec 2009 10:59:52 -0800 (PST) From: Chuck Swiger In-reply-to: <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB33D0D87E@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com> Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2009 10:59:51 -0800 Message-id: <159BAE4B-6BF2-4696-AF66-93A58E42D7CD@mac.com> References: <26710655.post@talk.nabble.com> <4B1FAE73.9010208@sbcglobal.net> <4B1FEB58.1050408@bah.homeip.net> <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB33D0D87E@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com> To: Peter Steele X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1077) Cc: regis505 , "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" , "J.D. Bronson" , Bernt Hansson Subject: Re: geometry does not match label (255h,63s != 16h,63s) 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: Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:59:53 -0000 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.