Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2005 20:45:45 -0500 (EST) From: nospam@apriori.net To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: That Drive Geometry Bug Message-ID: <43514.127.0.0.1.1135647945.squirrel@www.apriori.net> In-Reply-To: <20051226164848.0F9A416A429@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20051226164848.0F9A416A429@hub.freebsd.org>
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I am trying to back up the drive I have been using (which is now full) onto a 60GB Seagate IDE drive - ST360020A. After a bunch of failures at configuring the disk, I did some searching on the web and found some info on the "drive geometry bug". I followed the directions I found there - essentially, go into my BIOS at boot time, write down the drive geometry that the BIOS thinks I have and then plug those numbers into FreeBSD fdisk at the beginning of installation. What happened: 1. FreeBSD complained that the drive geometry it was seeing was wrong, and was using its own best guess: 7297/255/63. 2. I hit "G" and edited the C/H/S to that which the BIOS reported: 28733/16/255. 3. I hit Enter; the installer said `Nope, you're wrong! I'm going to use my best guess instead!' No matter how many times I try to enter the info, it changes it back to whatever it thinks is more correct. I tried switching the head and sector info (trying 28733/255/16). but no joy. Is there a way to coax the installer into cooperating? Thanks - -- paz.
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