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Subject: Install -- SCSI geometry incorrect (was OK before!)
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I've been running FreeBSD (-stable) OK off a 350MB wd disk with
another filesystem on a 1GB scsi. Recent attempts to rebuild the
system (from -current) indicated my / partition was too small so I'm
loading the 950726 SNAP.

I repartitioned the wd ok, but when I try to repartition the sd it
tells me that the geometry is incorrect and to use the G(eometry) menu
to fix it manually; for some reason it seems to think the disk has
three heads or something. 

I tried the specs listed in www.seagate.com (2700 cyls / 9 heads / 84 sec/trk)
but again the install:parition fails on incorrect geometry. 

I think maybe I trashed something, so use the AHA controller's
diagnostic boot menu to format the drive. After an 30 minutes or so
formatting, I try again. And again, geometry error on the parameters
which format apparantly put on the drive (oops, didn't write them
down)-:.

Any ideas here, and how to recover?

Thanks.