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Date:      Tue, 17 Dec 2002 06:37:58 +0100
From:      Cliff Sarginson <cls@raggedclown.net>
To:        FreeBSD Current <FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   SCSI Bios complaints and Disk Slices
Message-ID:  <20021217053758.GA56632@raggedclown.net>

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Hi,
I installed a second SCSI disk on a system. For testing I installed
Windows .. fine, I installed Linux .. fine. Then I installed
FreeBSD...fine *but* the SCSI BIOS on bootup complains that the disk
geometry is all cockeyed, and it looks that way from what it says.
It warns any non-DOS O/S may have problems using it.
Well I have had no problems, and fdisk makes no complaints. What has
happened to upset the SCSI BIOS ? The thing it seems to hate is that it
is getting 63 heads reported instead of 64.
It is a Tekram 390 U/W controller, with an IBM 18MB U160 disk.
There have never been any other complaints about the 1st SCSI disk.
Diagnostics show no problems.

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Regards
   Cliff Sarginson 
   The Netherlands

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