Re: Partitioning fails due to drive geometry inconsistency
On Monday 03 May 2004 18:33, Carsten Zimmermann wrote: Hello list. I know this had been discussed quite often, but none of the posting google offered worked out for me. Please (B)Cc: me as I am not on the list. I have a Western Digital WDC WD400AB-00CMB0 40 GB IDE drive hooked in as pri slave in my system and wish to install FreeBSD on it. This is not my first install, but it won't work this time (using 5.2.1-R): I try to partition the drive with fdisk during the installation process. Everytime I hit w to write the changes, the program catches ``sig 11'' (segfault?). Curious thing is: I was able to delete partions but I cannot create new ones. I tried every option concerning bootsector (boot mngr, std mbr, none) and the error occures every time. When I enter the fdisk tool it tells me that the drive geometry 778545/16/63 is wrong. I don't have a clue where it gets that value. This set of figures would correspond to a disk of 401GB (k=1000) or 374GB (k=1024) -- Clearly not a 40GB drive. The BIOS detects the geometry as 19158/16/255. The auto-corrected value This set corresponds to 40.0Gb (k=1000) so seems to be an acceptable set of numbers except that I understand that the seectors per track can't exceed 63 so the this set is unsuitable. In LBA mode it is not necessary that the specified geometry is the same as the physical reality. It is common to set the heads and sectors to maximum values 255/63. is 4865/255/63 which equals the BIOS-setting when access mode is set to LBA manually. When I enter the geometry manually with g, it still Which corresponds to this auto-corrected value and again calculates to 40.0GB (k=1000). This looks like the best geometry to use. mourns the value 19158/16/255 is not correct and again falls back to those LBA values. Again the 255 value is too large. Don't try to set your own geometry; go with the auto-corrected value. Malcolm ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Partitioning fails due to drive geometry inconsistency
Hello list. I know this had been discussed quite often, but none of the posting google offered worked out for me. Please (B)Cc: me as I am not on the list.= =20 I have a Western Digital WDC WD400AB-00CMB0 40 GB IDE drive hooked in as pri slave in my system and wish to install FreeBSD on it. This is not my first install, but it won't work this time (using 5.2.1-R): I try to partition the drive with fdisk during the installation process. Everytime I hit w to write the changes, the program catches ``sig 11'' (segfault?). Curious thing is: I was able to delete partions but I cannot create new ones. I tried every option concerning bootsector (boot mngr, std mbr, none) and the error occures every time. When I enter the fdisk tool it tells me that the drive geometry 778545/16/63 is wrong. I don't have a clue where it gets that value. The BIOS detects the geometry as 19158/16/255. The auto-corrected value is 4865/255/63 which equals the BIOS-setting when access mode is set to LBA manually. When I enter the geometry manually with g, it still mourns the value 19158/16/255 is not correct and again falls back to those LBA values. Check out this web page. It is actually a review, but it contains some information on this in the middle of the article that you may find helpful. http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=review-freeb jerry Important to say: the drive seems to work well on WinXP. I encountered no problem there. Using the DEBUG=3Dyes in the installation options menue revealed some UDMA ICRC ... crap error style messages. For this I played with UDMA und PIO-mode settings for IDE pri-slave in=20 the BIOS. Unfortunately, nothing happens (save the above errors ;). I hope anyone can help me with this issues which slowly driving me crazy... Thank you! Carsten --=20 Carsten Zimmermann mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel.: +49-(0)40-98760543 PGP: http://hacksocke.de/public_key.asc Aegis:Net IT-Dienstleistungen Postfach 620371 22403 Hamburg http://www.aegisnet.biz Info: +49-(0)700-AEGISNET Fax: +49-(0)40-98760547 --QRj9sO5tAVLaXnSD Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAlgrPucbzqiAxJVkRAs/BAJ93EJEgQQ2q/LL0G2/sHO4hoD4uxACZAYzP dPPehnxwwBAvTf5X+qwdqlI= =R2vi -END PGP SIGNATURE- --QRj9sO5tAVLaXnSD-- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Partitioning fails due to drive geometry inconsistency
Thanks for the answers so far. I tried to use the autocorrected values, of course. But I can't create a partition with them (as said: I was able to delete a NTFS partition w/o problems). When I try to write the partition table, sysinstall / fdisk catches signal 11. It seems fdisk is not able to write the partition data since the (now autocorrected) drive geometry is (still) not valid. Carsten Am Mon May 03, 2004 at 11:0325PM +0930 schrieb Malcolm Kay: On Monday 03 May 2004 18:33, Carsten Zimmermann wrote: Hello list. I know this had been discussed quite often, but none of the posting google offered worked out for me. Please (B)Cc: me as I am not on the list. I have a Western Digital WDC WD400AB-00CMB0 40 GB IDE drive hooked in as pri slave in my system and wish to install FreeBSD on it. This is not my first install, but it won't work this time (using 5.2.1-R): I try to partition the drive with fdisk during the installation process. Everytime I hit w to write the changes, the program catches ``sig 11'' (segfault?). Curious thing is: I was able to delete partions but I cannot create new ones. I tried every option concerning bootsector (boot mngr, std mbr, none) and the error occures every time. When I enter the fdisk tool it tells me that the drive geometry 778545/16/63 is wrong. I don't have a clue where it gets that value. This set of figures would correspond to a disk of 401GB (k=1000) or 374GB (k=1024) -- Clearly not a 40GB drive. The BIOS detects the geometry as 19158/16/255. The auto-corrected value This set corresponds to 40.0Gb (k=1000) so seems to be an acceptable set of numbers except that I understand that the seectors per track can't exceed 63 so the this set is unsuitable. In LBA mode it is not necessary that the specified geometry is the same as the physical reality. It is common to set the heads and sectors to maximum values 255/63. is 4865/255/63 which equals the BIOS-setting when access mode is set to LBA manually. When I enter the geometry manually with g, it still Which corresponds to this auto-corrected value and again calculates to 40.0GB (k=1000). This looks like the best geometry to use. mourns the value 19158/16/255 is not correct and again falls back to those LBA values. Again the 255 value is too large. Don't try to set your own geometry; go with the auto-corrected value. Malcolm -- Carsten Zimmermann mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel.: +49-(0)40-98760543 Aegis:Net IT-Dienstleistungen Postfach 620371 22403 Hamburg http://www.aegisnet.biz Info: +49-(0)700-AEGISNET Fax: +49-(0)40-98760547 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
RE: Partitioning fails due to drive geometry inconsistency
Ok, which OS was installed on it before trying to install BSD? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Carsten Zimmermann Sent: Monday, May 03, 2004 1:03 PM To: Malcolm Kay Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Partitioning fails due to drive geometry inconsistency Thanks for the answers so far. I tried to use the autocorrected values, of course. But I can't create a partition with them (as said: I was able to delete a NTFS partition w/o problems). When I try to write the partition table, sysinstall / fdisk catches signal 11. It seems fdisk is not able to write the partition data since the (now autocorrected) drive geometry is (still) not valid. Carsten Am Mon May 03, 2004 at 11:0325PM +0930 schrieb Malcolm Kay: On Monday 03 May 2004 18:33, Carsten Zimmermann wrote: Hello list. I know this had been discussed quite often, but none of the posting google offered worked out for me. Please (B)Cc: me as I am not on the list. I have a Western Digital WDC WD400AB-00CMB0 40 GB IDE drive hooked in as pri slave in my system and wish to install FreeBSD on it. This is not my first install, but it won't work this time (using 5.2.1-R): I try to partition the drive with fdisk during the installation process. Everytime I hit w to write the changes, the program catches ``sig 11'' (segfault?). Curious thing is: I was able to delete partions but I cannot create new ones. I tried every option concerning bootsector (boot mngr, std mbr, none) and the error occures every time. When I enter the fdisk tool it tells me that the drive geometry 778545/16/63 is wrong. I don't have a clue where it gets that value. This set of figures would correspond to a disk of 401GB (k=1000) or 374GB (k=1024) -- Clearly not a 40GB drive. The BIOS detects the geometry as 19158/16/255. The auto-corrected value This set corresponds to 40.0Gb (k=1000) so seems to be an acceptable set of numbers except that I understand that the seectors per track can't exceed 63 so the this set is unsuitable. In LBA mode it is not necessary that the specified geometry is the same as the physical reality. It is common to set the heads and sectors to maximum values 255/63. is 4865/255/63 which equals the BIOS-setting when access mode is set to LBA manually. When I enter the geometry manually with g, it still Which corresponds to this auto-corrected value and again calculates to 40.0GB (k=1000). This looks like the best geometry to use. mourns the value 19158/16/255 is not correct and again falls back to those LBA values. Again the 255 value is too large. Don't try to set your own geometry; go with the auto-corrected value. Malcolm -- Carsten Zimmermann mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel.: +49-(0)40-98760543 Aegis:Net IT-Dienstleistungen Postfach 620371 22403 Hamburg http://www.aegisnet.biz Info: +49-(0)700-AEGISNET Fax: +49-(0)40-98760547 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Partitioning fails due to drive geometry inconsistency
Create your self an windows bootable floppy with the ms/windows fdisk format programs. Boot from floppy, run fdisk and delete all partitions including the NT one. Then create new single msdos fat32 partition and set as primary active partition. Reboot from floppy then run format on c: drive. Put FreeBSD install cd in drive and reboot system to start install. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Carsten Zimmermann Sent: Monday, May 03, 2004 1:03 PM To: Malcolm Kay Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Partitioning fails due to drive geometry inconsistency Thanks for the answers so far. I tried to use the autocorrected values, of course. But I can't create a partition with them (as said: I was able to delete a NTFS partition w/o problems). When I try to write the partition table, sysinstall / fdisk catches signal 11. It seems fdisk is not able to write the partition data since the (now autocorrected) drive geometry is (still) not valid. Carsten Am Mon May 03, 2004 at 11:0325PM +0930 schrieb Malcolm Kay: On Monday 03 May 2004 18:33, Carsten Zimmermann wrote: Hello list. I know this had been discussed quite often, but none of the posting google offered worked out for me. Please (B)Cc: me as I am not on the list. I have a Western Digital WDC WD400AB-00CMB0 40 GB IDE drive hooked in as pri slave in my system and wish to install FreeBSD on it. This is not my first install, but it won't work this time (using 5.2.1-R): I try to partition the drive with fdisk during the installation process. Everytime I hit w to write the changes, the program catches ``sig 11'' (segfault?). Curious thing is: I was able to delete partions but I cannot create new ones. I tried every option concerning bootsector (boot mngr, std mbr, none) and the error occures every time. When I enter the fdisk tool it tells me that the drive geometry 778545/16/63 is wrong. I don't have a clue where it gets that value. This set of figures would correspond to a disk of 401GB (k=1000) or 374GB (k=1024) -- Clearly not a 40GB drive. The BIOS detects the geometry as 19158/16/255. The auto-corrected value This set corresponds to 40.0Gb (k=1000) so seems to be an acceptable set of numbers except that I understand that the seectors per track can't exceed 63 so the this set is unsuitable. In LBA mode it is not necessary that the specified geometry is the same as the physical reality. It is common to set the heads and sectors to maximum values 255/63. is 4865/255/63 which equals the BIOS-setting when access mode is set to LBA manually. When I enter the geometry manually with g, it still Which corresponds to this auto-corrected value and again calculates to 40.0GB (k=1000). This looks like the best geometry to use. mourns the value 19158/16/255 is not correct and again falls back to those LBA values. Again the 255 value is too large. Don't try to set your own geometry; go with the auto-corrected value. Malcolm -- Carsten Zimmermann mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel.: +49-(0)40-98760543 Aegis:Net IT-Dienstleistungen Postfach 620371 22403 Hamburg http://www.aegisnet.biz Info: +49-(0)700-AEGISNET Fax: +49-(0)40-98760547 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Partitioning fails due to drive geometry inconsistency
* Carsten Zimmermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-05-03 02:08]: Hello list. I know this had been discussed quite often, but none of the posting google offered worked out for me. Please (B)Cc: me as I am not on the list. I have a Western Digital WDC WD400AB-00CMB0 40 GB IDE drive hooked in as pri slave in my system and wish to install FreeBSD on it. This is not my first install, but it won't work this time (using 5.2.1-R): [snip] Important to say: the drive seems to work well on WinXP. I encountered no problem there. Using the DEBUG=yes in the installation options menue revealed some UDMA ICRC ... crap error style messages. Unofficially, something like this will work: 1) Swap the drives 2) Install FreeBSD on the [now] master 40GB drive 3) Install GAG (Graphical Boot Manager). You can find it here: http://gag.sourceforge.net/ GAG is very easy to install and setup, and will happily boot either OS from either drive. I have been running FreeBSD 4-stable on the same WD drive for around 3 years, and I like it alot. Note: there are other ways to do this. The above solution will get you where you want to go, but others may have more elegant solutions. -- Joshua I've travelled the world and the seven seas; I am watching you through a camera! -- Artie Ziff ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
