Date: Fri, 29 Sep 1995 19:32:15 GMT From: Chris Shenton <cshenton@apollo.hq.nasa.gov> Cc: hardware@freebsd.org, newell@lupine.nsi.nasa.gov, cshenton@apollo.hq.nasa.gov Subject: Install -- SCSI geometry incorrect (was OK before!) Message-ID: <199509291932.TAA17786@wirehead.hq.nasa.gov>
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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.
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