From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 2 15:07:01 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F14816A403 for ; Wed, 2 May 2007 15:07:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from mail7.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail7.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.9]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E56313C487 for ; Wed, 2 May 2007 15:07:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: (qmail 12547 invoked from network); 2 May 2007 15:07:00 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail7.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 2 May 2007 15:07:00 -0000 Received: by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix, from userid 1147) id D2E1C28479; Wed, 2 May 2007 11:02:40 -0400 (EDT) To: theorem21@gmail.com References: <4636D629.2010709@gmail.com> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 11:02:40 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4636D629.2010709@gmail.com> (Theorem's message of "Tue\, 01 May 2007 01\:54\:49 -0400") Message-ID: <44y7k7s1yn.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.99 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0 && fdisk = bad disk geometry ? 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, 02 May 2007 15:07:01 -0000 Theorem writes: > I'm having trouble setting up a new RAID5 array. It's a RocketRAID > 1740 with 4x 500G disks, in RAID5 this gives approx. 1.5T of space. > It looks like it's operating properly on /dev/da0 . > > Unfortunately, when I go to FDISK this via /usr/sbin/sysinstall I see > the same error over and over and over trying to set my disk to the > right cycls / heads / sectors. > > here are 2 screenshots of the messages : > > http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y260/theorem21/manual_set_err.jpg > http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y260/theorem21/repeat_set_err.jpg > > Even trying to set the disk manually gives the "repeat_set_err.jpg", > so I can't possibly have a correct disk geometry. > > Can anyone help me out ? Any suggestions are welcome, I don't know if > ignoring this is the best option. There is more information in the FAQ, but yes, you should be able to ignore it if the system seems to be working fine.