Re: Incorrect geometry
On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 03:20:25AM -0800, Loren M. Lang wrote: On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 10:32:19PM -0600, Mike Loiterman wrote: Kevin Kinsey mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike Loiterman wrote: When I do a new install of FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE I get an error saying the drive geometry is incorrect. In the next screen, I put in the correct geometry, as reported by the BIOS, but after I hit q, I get the same error. The drive is a brand new 160 SATA Segate. The geometry FreeBSD suggests yield 152 Gigs, slices correctly and functions perfectly. I'm plannning on reformating anyway as this is only a test run, but do I need to be conserned about the error? Isn't the rest of the error message using a more likely geometry? IANAE, but I believe FBSD is simply stating that it doesn't find the BIOS's numbers to be what it wants, so it's going to use its own. This would explain the effect you see in the second sentence above. As yield, slice, and function seems OK, I think go for it! is perfectly good advice in this instance. I've seen the error several times, too, and so far so good. It does say, using a more likely geometry. The numbers are vastly different then what the BIOS says, but as I said, the capacity seems correct and it functions normally. I just don't want to have any trouble down the road... It shouldn't be a problem. Geometries nowdays aren't as useful as they used to be and aren't really used much, LBA alleviates most of that. The geometries that FreeBSD uses aren't the same that the drive internally uses. In fact, using geometries has been the cause of an old 8 gig limit on hard drives, a newer 137 gig limit, and an old boot loader problem booting anything over cylinder 1023. As for the missing 8 gigs, that's probably because your hard drive manufacture used SI units (10^3=1000) instead of the standard units (2^10=1024) just to make the number look bigger. My 250 gig drive is only 238 gig in reality. Back when I installed 5.2 I to got this error. I went along with it, but this seemed to cause the system to not be able to reboot. This is proberbly the worst that can happen to you. Somehow I was able to install it with the orignal setting. Afther this it would reboot. No when running FDISK Partition Editor from /stand/sysinstall it says: A geometry of 484521/16/63 for ad0 is incorrect. But when running fdisk off the shell it says: parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=484521 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl) -- Alex Please copy the original recipients, otherwise I may not read your reply. WWW: http://www.kruijff.org/alex/FreeBSD/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Incorrect geometry
On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 10:32:19PM -0600, Mike Loiterman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kevin Kinsey mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike Loiterman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 When I do a new install of FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE I get an error saying the drive geometry is incorrect. In the next screen, I put in the correct geometry, as reported by the BIOS, but after I hit q, I get the same error. The drive is a brand new 160 SATA Segate. The geometry FreeBSD suggests yield 152 Gigs, slices correctly and functions perfectly. I'm plannning on reformating anyway as this is only a test run, but do I need to be conserned about the error? Isn't the rest of the error message using a more likely geometry? IANAE, but I believe FBSD is simply stating that it doesn't find the BIOS's numbers to be what it wants, so it's going to use its own. This would explain the effect you see in the second sentence above. As yield, slice, and function seems OK, I think go for it! is perfectly good advice in this instance. I've seen the error several times, too, and so far so good. I am willing to be corrected by my betters, though, of course. Kevin Kinsey It does say, using a more likely geometry. The numbers are vastly different then what the BIOS says, but as I said, the capacity seems correct and it functions normally. I just don't want to have any trouble down the road... It shouldn't be a problem. Geometries nowdays aren't as useful as they used to be and aren't really used much, LBA alleviates most of that. The geometries that FreeBSD uses aren't the same that the drive internally uses. In fact, using geometries has been the cause of an old 8 gig limit on hard drives, a newer 137 gig limit, and an old boot loader problem booting anything over cylinder 1023. As for the missing 8 gigs, that's probably because your hard drive manufacture used SI units (10^3=1000) instead of the standard units (2^10=1024) just to make the number look bigger. My 250 gig drive is only 238 gig in reality. - -- Mike Loiterman grantADLER Tel: 630-302-4944 Fax: 773-442-0992 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: 0xD1B9D18E -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 8.1 iQA/AwUBQjJw02jZbUnRudGOEQIFgACghb4rW7h8yi7Gy51D427MDeIlfMQAn1b5 v4YVKUhIT9gwS6SZBMDDwYK0 =KtaI -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- I sense much NT in you. NT leads to Bluescreen. Bluescreen leads to downtime. Downtime leads to suffering. NT is the path to the darkside. Powerful Unix is. Public Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc Fingerprint: CEE1 AAE2 F66C 59B5 34CA C415 6D35 E847 0118 A3D2 pgpFxXlYrciuB.pgp Description: PGP signature
Incorrect geometry
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 When I do a new install of FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE I get an error saying the drive geometry is incorrect. In the next screen, I put in the correct geometry, as reported by the BIOS, but after I hit q, I get the same error. The drive is a brand new 160 SATA Segate. The geometry FreeBSD suggests yield 152 Gigs, slices correctly and functions perfectly. I'm plannning on reformating anyway as this is only a test run, but do I need to be conserned about the error? - -- Mike Loiterman grantADLER Tel: 630-302-4944 Fax: 773-442-0992 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: 0xD1B9D18E -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 8.1 iQA/AwUBQjIwn2jZbUnRudGOEQLIQwCdF8XAOxDEPJ0HtCQrwUpJMuhJ8u4Ani+M RKEnJ+qPARPSXH6SXuIrq7Ir =zBSp -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Incorrect geometry
Mike Loiterman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 When I do a new install of FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE I get an error saying the drive geometry is incorrect. In the next screen, I put in the correct geometry, as reported by the BIOS, but after I hit q, I get the same error. The drive is a brand new 160 SATA Segate. The geometry FreeBSD suggests yield 152 Gigs, slices correctly and functions perfectly. I'm plannning on reformating anyway as this is only a test run, but do I need to be conserned about the error? Isn't the rest of the error message using a more likely geometry? IANAE, but I believe FBSD is simply stating that it doesn't find the BIOS's numbers to be what it wants, so it's going to use its own. This would explain the effect you see in the second sentence above. As yield, slice, and function seems OK, I think go for it! is perfectly good advice in this instance. I've seen the error several times, too, and so far so good. I am willing to be corrected by my betters, though, of course. Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Incorrect geometry
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kevin Kinsey mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike Loiterman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 When I do a new install of FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE I get an error saying the drive geometry is incorrect. In the next screen, I put in the correct geometry, as reported by the BIOS, but after I hit q, I get the same error. The drive is a brand new 160 SATA Segate. The geometry FreeBSD suggests yield 152 Gigs, slices correctly and functions perfectly. I'm plannning on reformating anyway as this is only a test run, but do I need to be conserned about the error? Isn't the rest of the error message using a more likely geometry? IANAE, but I believe FBSD is simply stating that it doesn't find the BIOS's numbers to be what it wants, so it's going to use its own. This would explain the effect you see in the second sentence above. As yield, slice, and function seems OK, I think go for it! is perfectly good advice in this instance. I've seen the error several times, too, and so far so good. I am willing to be corrected by my betters, though, of course. Kevin Kinsey It does say, using a more likely geometry. The numbers are vastly different then what the BIOS says, but as I said, the capacity seems correct and it functions normally. I just don't want to have any trouble down the road... - -- Mike Loiterman grantADLER Tel: 630-302-4944 Fax: 773-442-0992 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: 0xD1B9D18E -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 8.1 iQA/AwUBQjJw02jZbUnRudGOEQIFgACghb4rW7h8yi7Gy51D427MDeIlfMQAn1b5 v4YVKUhIT9gwS6SZBMDDwYK0 =KtaI -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
