"Jonathan Gilpin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The raid array does appear to be detected however when I use the fisk > utility durring the installation it complains about the drive geometry. > > FreeBSD detects: Cyl/Hd/Sect 94415/255/63 > > The utility suggests using 911534/104/16 I agree to this and it then says > that this suggest geometry is invalid. I continue and when it comes to > make the new file system it gives the time out errors above and then complains > it cannot write to the disk.
These problems are unrelated. FreeBSD does not care about drive geometry. The reason fdisk(1) mentions it is that the geometry (or actually a fake but plausible geometry - modern disks can't be accurately described in terms of C/H/S) is encoded in the MBR for legacy reasons. If the numbers in the MBR are wrong, the BIOS may be unable to load FreeBSD from disk when it boots. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
