Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 12:21:38 -0700 From: "jdow" <jdow@earthlink.net> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Disk Geometry Errors. Message-ID: <02d301c67f67$482b15a0$0225a8c0@Wednesday> References: <9a4a258a0605240749j6901765auf942c5c6cd99671e@mail.gmail.com><44747DD3.9040805@daleco.biz> <9a4a258a0605241035v28088f83l845c8c320a44f87@mail.gmail.com>
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One thing that comes to mind, as I read below, is that it appears you
setup the drives for RAID 1. Then you transplanted to them to a RAID 5
controller. "Of course" the partition data will be wrong. The hidden
blocks the two RAID controllers use are probably different and the
method of storage for RAID 5 is quite different from that used by RAID 1.
(Worse yet, you may have managed to hose the drives so that any data
on them is gone.)
{^_^} Joanne
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lisandro Grullon" <lisandro.grullon@gmail.com>
Hi Kevin and thanks for repplyng, sysinstall does not crach at all, the
problem is that the information is not retain by the label. I keep getting
that contact "Disk Geometry" error when I try fdisk into the volume/drive.
Any ideas what is happening. let me know what other information you may need
to assist me further.
On 5/24/06, Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> wrote:
>
> Lisandro Grullon wrote:
> > Good Morning,
> >
> > Last night I was trying installing a new Areca controller 1120 8 ports
> > using a 5 bay (300GB seagate) drives Raid 5. The main OS is install
> using the
> > SATA controller in RAID 1 configuration of the mother board, the
> addition of
> > last night was a separate controller I install.The install when good and
> I
> > installed my modules in the kernel, now my problem is when I try to
> > partition the volume using fdisk/label with system install it is giving
> me
> > nasty disk geometry incorrect error, can anyone tell me what is this all
> > about? Thank you.
>
> We'd probably need some more information. Does sysinstall crash?
> Does the fdisk information get written to disk anyway? The label?
>
> KDK
>
> --
> Zero Mostel: That's it baby! When you got it, flaunt it! Flaunt it!
> -- Mel Brooks, The Producers
>
>
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Lisandro Grullon
New York City College of Technology
Division of Continuing Education
Director of Network Operations
Lisandro Office: 1718-552-1178
Lisandro E-mail: lgrullon@citytech.cuny.edu
"The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.".
<Albert Einstein>
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