Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:19:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Christopher Turner <christopher@contemplation.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: HD Geometry Issue... Message-ID: <20030412171001.X73278@thought>
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Hello, I have two 40Gig Seagate Baracuda IV's. The physical drive is 1023/256/63 The BIOS detects it at 1024/255/63 The detection upon bootup detects it somewhere around 77,000(estimate)/255/63 The install program on the floppies said that 77,000 was wrong and that it's attempting to use a more likely geometry of 45,000(estimate)/255/63. The install program suggested that i should try what the BIOS detected the drive as first before i accepted it's recommended geometry. I did that and it failed to write properly. I then tried installing with what it wanted to use instead - the 45,000 figure. It accepted data fine, but now when i software reboot, the machine sounds a case alarm when the BIOS is set to boot from a BSD-installed drive. I then blew away the OS and installed Win2k to run the HD tools. It booted fine to 2k. I then tried to boot to the second drive that had BSD installed. Case alarm again! Could this be a geometry issue? Does anyone have some insight that they could offer? Are there issues with Seagate Baracudas & BSD? Will it hurt the harddrive if i tried many different geometries? Thanks! -- Christopher Turner christopher@contemplation.org
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