Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:51:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Unga <unga888@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD fdisk how to? Message-ID: <632503.83320.qm@web57010.mail.re3.yahoo.com>
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Hi all I need to partition a new 250GB SATA disk. BIOS Auto calculated disk geometry shows: parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=119706 heads=16 sectors/track=255 (4080 blks/cyl) That is, Total sectors=488400480 Since the C/H/S values are not compatible with FreeBSD fdisk, I recalculated them as: Sectors/track: 63 Heads: 255 Cylinders = 488400480 / 16065 = 30401 I made a configfile as: g c30401 h255 s63 p 1 165 63 488392002 a 1 I ran fdisk as follows: fdisk -f configfile -itv /dev/ad2 I get following message: ******* Working on device /dev/ad2 ******* fdisk: invalid fdisk partition table found fdisk: WARNING line 1: number of cylinders (30401) may be out-of-range (must be within 1-1024 for normal BIOS operation, unless the entire disk is dedicated to FreeBSD) parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=119705 heads=16 sectors/track=255 (4080 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=30401 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) Information from DOS bootblock is: 1: sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 63, size 488392002 (238472 Meg), flag 80 (active) beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1; end: cyl 704/ head 254/ sector 63 2: <UNUSED> 3: <UNUSED> 4: <UNUSED> Now my questions: 1. Am I suppose to enter as c1024 instead of c30401, irrespective of the size of the disk? 2. Is it an error if I still enter as c30401? 3. Am I suppose to enter the c30401 h255 s63 values to the BIOS as user mode before run fdisk? In case the way I use fdisk under FreeBSD is not correct, appreciate if you guys can point to some documentation. I followed the fdisk(8). Many thanks in advance. Kind regards Unga
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