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Date:      Thu, 19 Mar 2009 08:37:34 -0700
From:      Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com>
To:        "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: GEOM: ad10s1: geometry does not match label (255h, 63s != 16h, 63s).
Message-ID:  <5F9E4F6E-E979-40DE-9DF7-41107A949819@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <49C24A76.7000707@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
References:  <49C24A76.7000707@zedat.fu-berlin.de>

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On Mar 19, 2009, at 6:36 AM, O. Hartmann wrote:

> Since I switched recently my lab's box from FreeBSD 7.1 to FreeBSD  
> 8.0-CURRENT/amd64 SMP, I get this weird message:
>
> GEOM: ad10s1: geometry does not match label (255h,63s != 16h,63s).
> GEOM: ad10s2: geometry does not match label (255h,63s != 16h,63s).

It means that the number of heads the disk reports it has is
not the same as the number of heads that sysinstall put in
the BSD disklabel. A mismatch for the number of heads is
generally speaking harmless, but the discrepancy is there
and it may be a problem in some cases. Hence the message.

-- 
Marcel Moolenaar
xcllnt@mac.com






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