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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
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