On Mon, 4 Aug 2008 18:02:52 -0700 (PDT)
Slick Bo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If I let sysinstall change the disk geometry, will it create
problems for the files on 0 and the WinXP installation?
NO. You can safely do it. And if you don't like the fbsd bootloader you
can always change to another
On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 8:02 PM, Slick Bo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've
seen a few people on this mailing list say that disk geometry really
doesn't matter that much, and the OS usually works fine despite
apparent errors. But I'd prefer to be able to keep my windows installation.
If I let
disk
geometry.
I have tried checking the geometry of my disks.
However, my BIOS does not display it. The only information it displays
about each disk is the capacity in megabytes (4 MB), and the type
(whether it's auto or off). And pfdisk.exe doesn't work; it's
reportedly not allowed
the installation, when i have to enter in
the disk partition section an error appears saying that the disk
geometry is not valid and, anyway, I can not see the free disk space
that i left free after the other OS. My scope is keep working the
three OS.
How can i know the correct disk geometry? What am i
into the freebsd world from many years
in GNU/Linux. When i start the installation, when i have to enter in
the disk partition section an error appears saying that the disk
geometry is not valid and, anyway, I can not see the free disk space
that i left free after the other OS. My scope is keep
in this order, Win XP and Debian
GNU/Linux. I'm trying to dive into the freebsd world from many years
in GNU/Linux. When i start the installation, when i have to enter in
the disk partition section an error appears saying that the disk
geometry is not valid and, anyway, I can not see the free
appears saying that the disk
geometry is not valid and, anyway, I can not see the free disk space
that i left free after the other OS. My scope is keep working the
three OS.
How can i know the correct disk geometry? What am i doing wrong?
Mi laptop is Intel Core2 Duo and the Hard Disk is SATA 200
. It
says my disk geometry is wrong. It says I need to use whatever
numbers my BIOS uses. But my BIOS doesn't show the disk geometry
numbers anywhere I can see. How can I proceed? How can I find
out what disk geometry to use?
One method, which I think may be mentioned in the Handbook
FreeBSD I get an
error message when I get to the partition the disk stage. It
says my disk geometry is wrong. It says I need to use whatever
numbers my BIOS uses. But my BIOS doesn't show the disk geometry
numbers anywhere I can see. How can I proceed? How can I find
out what disk
I have a Compaq Presario Notebook in the V2000 series.
I just replaced the hard drive because the original was getting
disk errors.
I have a WD Scorpio 120 GB. When I try to load FreeBSD I get
an error message when I get to the partition the disk stage. It says
my disk geometry is wrong
the disk manually gives the repeat_set_err.jpg,
so I can't possibly have a correct disk geometry.
Can anyone help me out ? Any suggestions are welcome, I don't know if
ignoring this is the best option.
There is more information in the FAQ, but yes, you should be able to
ignore
the repeat_set_err.jpg, so I can't
possibly have a correct disk geometry.
Can anyone help me out ? Any suggestions are welcome, I don't know if ignoring
this is the best option.
Thanks,
theorem
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Is interesting, this is what reca repply back to me. I think areca should
add some sort of utility in the controller to find out the disk geometry
information in the fly and stop blamming FBSD.
Dear Sir,
This is Kevin Wang from Areca Technology, Tech-Support Team.
regarding your problem
not crach at all, the
problem is that the information is not retain by the label. I keep getting
that contact Disk Geometry error when I try fdisk into the volume/drive.
Any ideas what is happening. let me know what other information you may need
to assist me further.
I didn't follow all
for repplyng, sysinstall does not crach at all, the
problem is that the information is not retain by the label. I keep getting
that contact Disk Geometry error when I try fdisk into the volume/drive.
Any ideas what is happening. let me know what other information you may need
to assist me further.
I
the RAID 5 disk
set using sysinstall fdisk I get the disk geometry error right after
selecting the disk set. I am not sure, but is there a way to find out the
disk geometry that the controller bios is assuming is the correct one. If
there is a way to find that information our, I can just use the G
set using sysinstall fdisk I get the disk geometry error right after
selecting the disk set. I am not sure, but is there a way to find out the
disk geometry that the controller bios is assuming is the correct one. If
there is a way to find that information our, I can just use the G option
in fdisk
and everything , but
when I try configuring the RAID 5 disk set using sysinstall fdisk I get
the disk geometry error right after selecting the disk set. I am not
sure, but is there a way to find out the disk geometry that the
controller bios is assuming is the correct one. If there is a way to
find
install when good and I
installed my modules in the kernel, now my problem is when I try to
partition the volume using fdisk/label with system install it is giving me
nasty disk geometry incorrect error, can anyone tell me what is this all
about? Thank you.
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New York City College
controller I install.The install when good and I
installed my modules in the kernel, now my problem is when I try to
partition the volume using fdisk/label with system install it is giving me
nasty disk geometry incorrect error, can anyone tell me what is this all
about? Thank you.
We'd probably
Hi Kevin and thanks for repplyng, sysinstall does not crach at all, the
problem is that the information is not retain by the label. I keep getting
that contact Disk Geometry error when I try fdisk into the volume/drive.
Any ideas what is happening. let me know what other information you may need
, the
problem is that the information is not retain by the label. I keep getting
that contact Disk Geometry error when I try fdisk into the volume/drive.
Any ideas what is happening. let me know what other information you may need
to assist me further.
On 5/24/06, Kevin Kinsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
A quick question:
This weekend, I have decided to reinstall my Soekris net4801 since the 80GB
disk in it, after running continuously for almost 3 years now, has reported
a few read errors last week. So I promptly decided to replace the disk.
I didn't have another FreeBSD machine to build a
Hi at all.
My question is simple.
My laptop is a 1513lmi Acer, it has a TOSHIBA MK6025GAS disk with
117210240 LBA sectors.
When I install Freebsd 5.3, Sysinstall, in the Fdisk submenu,state the
geometry 116280/16/63 then translate automatically this geometry to
7296/255/63.
But both when I use the
slice and fsck my hard drive
(I think
this is right, please correct me if I'm wrong), only its been a while
since I sliced
up my hard drive and I've forgotten what the disk looks like. Is there
anyway
of investigating the disk geometry from this automount prompt? The only
commands I seem to have
have to mount a disk slice and fsck my hard drive
(I think
this is right, please correct me if I'm wrong), only its been a while
since I sliced
up my hard drive and I've forgotten what the disk looks like. Is
there anyway
of investigating the disk geometry from this automount prompt? The only
and I've forgotten what the disk looks like. Is
there anyway
of investigating the disk geometry from this automount prompt? The only
commands I seem to have available are mount commands.
Thanks,
Dan.
(Hi, Dan ... this probably needs to go over to [EMAIL PROTECTED],
where more experience folks
Erik Norgaard wrote:
Jeremy Faulkner wrote:
'fdisk -B' didn't work?
Nope :-( I have installed gpart, it complians*
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad0 bs=512 count=32
fdisk -BI ad0
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad0s1 bs=512 count=32
bsdlabel -w -B ad0s1
did the job. I think I shouldn't have specified -w in the
Hi,
It appears that I have screwed my disk (60GB) thoroughly. I had used the
sample install.cfg for sysinstall but it has partition=exclusive and
not all. I did
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad0 count=1k
as explained in the faq, and the exclusive partioning was gone.
I can run sysinstall, slice up
Erik Norgaard wrote:
Hi,
It appears that I have screwed my disk (60GB) thoroughly. I had used the
sample install.cfg for sysinstall but it has partition=exclusive and
not all. I did
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad0 count=1k
as explained in the faq, and the exclusive partioning was gone.
I can run
Jeremy Faulkner wrote:
'fdisk -B' didn't work?
Nope :-( I have installed gpart, it complians*
* Warning: partition(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) starts beyond disk end.
Partition(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD): invalid primary
OK.
and then guessed an empty partition table...
?
Thanks, Erik
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On Thu, 07 Oct 2004 21:23:38 +0200, Alex de Kruijff wrote
On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 02:30:51PM -0400, Chuck Swiger wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Please enlighten me. What way I should follow?
First, make sure you've updated your machine to the most recent
BIOS.
Next, check the BIOS
Hi all,
Trying to install 5.3b7 on the second slice of a Seagate ST380013AS
SATA 80G drive.
Drive was originally partitioned from NT to have an 8G NTFS slice
at the front, with the rest left open for FBSD.
When I boot off a CD (image created from downloaded iso image),
start the install, and go to
On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 00:48:34 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
When I boot off a CD (image created from downloaded iso image),
start the install, and go to allocate the freebsd slice, it reports
155061/16/63 ad4
and says the geometry is invalid
What does the sticker on top of the drive say
Subhro wrote:
When I boot off a CD (image created from downloaded iso image),
start the install, and go to allocate the freebsd slice, it reports
155061/16/63 ad4
and says the geometry is invalid
What does the sticker on top of the drive say about its geometry. I
would like to explicitly
On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 02:03:21 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The only problem is that the geometry was reported as bad by
sysinstall, and implied I needed to change it.
Yet the partition step appears to have changed it already, or is
assuming it will be changed.
I don't understand what the
Subhro wrote:
On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 02:03:21 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The only problem is that the geometry was reported as bad by
sysinstall, and implied I needed to change it.
Yet the partition step appears to have changed it already, or is
assuming it will be changed.
I don't understand what
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[ ... ]
The only problem is that the geometry was reported as bad by
sysinstall, and implied I needed to change it.
When you access a drive in LBA mode, the BIOS reports a fake geometry. This
is the warning you see, but you probably do not need to change anything, just
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Please enlighten me. What way I should follow?
First, make sure you've updated your machine to the most recent BIOS. Next,
check the BIOS config about your disk drives, and if there exists an option to
allow you to choose LBA mode rather than C/H/S, use LBA mode.
On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 02:30:51PM -0400, Chuck Swiger wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Please enlighten me. What way I should follow?
First, make sure you've updated your machine to the most recent BIOS.
Next, check the BIOS config about your disk drives, and if there exists an
option
Hi,
I had a disk failure recently, and bought a new drive afterwards. it
is 80GB WD800BB model. I went on with a fast install to restore my
ability to work. I created a small slice in the leading gigas. Now I
wanted to go on with slicing the disk, but I got stuck.
When I get to sysinstall's
On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 01:28:54PM +0800, FreeBSD Daemon wrote:
Dear list
I bought a 3ware 7500-4LP controller and 4x 200GB IDE disks to go with
it.
Now installing FreeBSD 4.10 I get a warring that the disk geometry
(72963cyls/255heads/63sectrors) is wrong.
Can I ignore this warning safely
Yes.
On Sunday 22 August 2004 01:28 am, FreeBSD Daemon wrote:
Dear list
I bought a 3ware 7500-4LP controller and 4x 200GB IDE disks to go with
it.
Now installing FreeBSD 4.10 I get a warring that the disk geometry
(72963cyls/255heads/63sectrors) is wrong.
Can I ignore this warning safely
Dear list
I bought a 3ware 7500-4LP controller and 4x 200GB IDE disks to go with
it.
Now installing FreeBSD 4.10 I get a warring that the disk geometry
(72963cyls/255heads/63sectrors) is wrong.
Can I ignore this warning safely?
TIA
zheyu
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you can do to correct the bug other
than go back and reinstall, this time hitting g. There might be
another way to change disk geometry without doing that, but I don't know
how (anybody reading this know?).
After complaining about an incorrect geometry, sysinstall (or Fdisk)
automatically enters
From a high level view, it means you don't have access to 4.6 meg of
data space on a 40 gig hard drive. That represents 1/1 of the
disk space you do have available to you. Don't worry about it, install
the OS and enjoy FreeBSD.
2) When installing FreeBSD, sysinstall warns that a geometry
Ok. Thanks for the answers.
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Hi, I would like to try FreeBSD but recently I've encountered several
problems with the detection of my hard drives' geometry, so I have a few
questions. I hope this is the right place to ask...
First I would like to say that my understanding of this issue is minor,
so if my questions seem stupid,
. In order to maximize the number of disk sectors that can be
addressed using the BIOS interface, a BIOS often reports a disk geometry
different than what the disk reports to the BIOS and uses that BIOS
geometry when interpreting disk addresses specified in BIOS function
calls. A BIOS geometry
partition editor, just
hitting g is usually all you have to do to correct the bug. If you've
already installed, I'm not sure what you can do to correct the bug other
than go back and reinstall, this time hitting g. There might be
another way to change disk geometry without doing that, but I don't know
When scripting sysinstall, it still halts with an
error about my disk
geometry. The problem is, even if I specify the
geometry that FreeBSD
wants to use by setting the geometry= variable, I
still get the error.
Everything else in sysinstall is being scripted
correctly. The only
problems
the very same happened to me with a maxtor hard drive
and it happened to be a bad cable
check jumper settings, cables, controlers etc
It wasn't a jumper problem as it happened with a number of hard disks. I
simply commented out the code in sysinstall that generated the error and
supplied the
When scripting sysinstall, it still halts with an
error about my disk
geometry. The problem is, even if I specify the
geometry that FreeBSD
wants to use by setting the geometry= variable, I
still get the error.
Everything else in sysinstall is being scripted
correctly. The only
problems
When scripting sysinstall, it still halts with an
error about my disk
geometry. The problem is, even if I specify the
geometry that FreeBSD
wants to use by setting the geometry= variable, I
still get the error.
Even when you use the exact values your BIOS thinks it is?
I am pretty
Ok last problem I am having:
When scripting sysinstall, it still halts with an error about my disk
geometry. The problem is, even if I specify the geometry that FreeBSD
wants to use by setting the geometry= variable, I still get the error.
Everything else in sysinstall is being scripted
Hello,
I have a fairly new test machine configured on an Intel 875 (yes, the ICH5
controller) board. I have a standard ATA-133 drive and two SATA drives,
Maxtor 80GB. They are not configured as a RAID device. Here's the thing:
When I try to install FBSD, I get the apparently common disk geometry
I have found that if you just hit g, it will report the correct disk
geometry and fix the problem without any further intervention. Ideally,
it would be better if this disk geometry bug gets fixed, but for the
time being, hitting g is a quick and dirty fix that works for most
people. I wouldn't
Hi
I'm having problems with FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE getting
the proper disk geometry.
When I was installing I passed the correct info and
installed, but once I rebooted the info is wiped off
and again it has the wrong geometry what makes my
system very crashy
Time for you to do some
Hi
I'm having problems with FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE getting
the proper disk geometry.
When I was installing I passed the correct info and
installed, but once I rebooted the info is wiped off
and again it has the wrong geometry what makes my
system very crashy
PS: is there a way to do this in lilo
I would certainly be checking the positions on the ribbon. I was caught
by this myself - should have known better, doh! For ATA-100+ cables, the
black connector is master and the grey is slave. Not an issue for older
and slower ATA modes, but a gotcha for ATA-100+.
the CD-ROM as the master
and the hard drive as the slave. With the CD-ROM as the master, sysinstall
is able to actually detect the CD/DVD drive, but then I run into this
nonsense with fdisk refusing to detect or accept the correct disk geometry
for the hard drive. It's worth noting that I've
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Subject: Re: FDisk won't detect or accept correct disk geometry from BIOS
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 09:57:18 +0100
Michael Clark wrote:
I configure the two devices that way (CD-ROM as slave, hard drive as
master), sysinstall refuses to mount the CD, giving me an error about
CD/DVD
Keith Kelly wrote:
On Jan 22, 2004, at 5:24 PM, Keith Kelly wrote:
I already tried (with both 4.9 and 5.1) letting the FreeBSD install
proceed
with fdisk's geometry value assumptions, and what I always get is a
non-bootable hard drive that gives the Missing operating system
error
Keith Kelly wrote:
OK, but if the auto mode uses the wrong C/H/S translation, this default
may be the source of your problem. What happens when you switch from
using auto to explicitly using LBA?
I don't know. I've never had to change away from Auto to get any other OS
to install or boot from
take a fixit floppy/CD.
# boot0cfg -o packet /dev/whatever
might help you (it enables the bootloader to use LBA packet mode).
I've already read all the FAQs, handbooks, and support sites I could find
regarding FreeBSD and disk geometry. None of them have contained any
information specific
I don't know. I've never had to change away from Auto to
get any other OS
to install or boot from any of my hard drives, though, so I
really doubt
that is the problem. I'm quite confident the problem must
lie with FreeBSD
itself, in the form of a bug or a lack of hardware
. With the CD-ROM as the master, sysinstall
is able to actually detect the CD/DVD drive, but then I run into this
nonsense with fdisk refusing to detect or accept the correct disk geometry
for the hard drive. It's worth noting that I've never had to manually
specify hard drive geometry settings
don't complain. Your not committing...
-Original Message-
From: Keith Kelly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 7:49 PM
To: Derrick Ryalls
Cc: freebsd-bugs; 'freebsd-questions ORG'
Subject: Re: FDisk won't detect or accept correct disk geometry from
BIOS
My
Please see this page:
http://lantech.geekvenue.net/chucktips/jason/chuck/1044789670/index_html
This is exactly the problem I am having now whenever I try to install either
FreeBSD 4.9 or 5.1. Clearly, a lot of other users out there are having this
problem too. FDisk absolutely refuses to
the drive. And both of
*those* geometries are different from the one that fdisk keeps trying to
assume.
I've already read all the FAQs, handbooks, and support sites I could find
regarding FreeBSD and disk geometry. None of them have contained any
information specific to IDE drives (they all
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 14:24:19 -0800
Keith Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks for your thoughtful and helpful reply. I should have given
more technical details.
I already tried (with both 4.9 and 5.1) letting the FreeBSD install
proceed with fdisk's geometry value assumptions, and what I
On Jan 22, 2004, at 5:24 PM, Keith Kelly wrote:
I already tried (with both 4.9 and 5.1) letting the FreeBSD install
proceed
with fdisk's geometry value assumptions, and what I always get is a
non-bootable hard drive that gives the Missing operating system
error at
boot.
Sufficiently old
or accept correct disk geometry from BIOS
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 14:24:19 -0800
Keith Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks for your thoughtful and helpful reply. I should have given
more technical details.
I already tried (with both 4.9 and 5.1) letting the FreeBSD install
proceed
See comments in-line.
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From: Charles Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Keith Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: freebsd-questions [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 2:56 PM
Subject: Re: FDisk won't detect or accept correct disk geometry from BIOS
On Jan 22
and is using to address the drive. And both of
*those* geometries are different from the one that fdisk keeps trying to
assume.
I've already read all the FAQs, handbooks, and support sites I could find
regarding FreeBSD and disk geometry. None of them have contained any
information specific
On Jan 22, 2004, at 6:04 PM, Keith Kelly wrote:
The motherboard is not old. It is an MSI KT4 Ultra motherboard, if I
remember the model number correctly off the top of my head, for the
Athlon
XP architecture. The BIOS doesn't even explicitly list what mode
(LBA, CHS,
extended CHS) it is using
: Thursday, January 22, 2004 2:38 PM
Subject: Re: FDisk won't detect or accept correct disk geometry from BIOS
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 14:24:19 -0800
Keith Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks for your thoughtful and helpful reply. I should have given
more technical details.
I
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Subject: Re: FDisk won't detect or accept correct disk geometry from BIOS
Yes, I tried it both ways (installing BootMgr, and installing a standard
MBR).
I just thought of one more awful thing which has
Inline.
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From: Charles Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Keith Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: freebsd-questions ORG [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 3:27 PM
Subject: Re: FDisk won't detect or accept correct disk geometry from BIOS
On Jan 22, 2004, at 6
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 22:02:31 +0200 radu.florin [EMAIL PROTECTED] probably wrote:
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 16:20:42 -0500, Andrew L. Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Wednesday 24 September 2003 03:09 pm, Sergey DoubleF Zaharchenko
wrote:
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 17:11:49 +0200 radu.florin
Hi,
I'm testing the coexistence of Win95, Linux Slackware and Free BSD 5.1
on a single physical disk PC ( P133, 16Mo RAM, 3 GO dd).
Just the time to see if I can boot to the OS I want to use.
Then to install on a PC with 384 Mo RAM a 40 Go dd
On the P133 I'm testing, all is working fine with Win
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 17:11:49 +0200 radu.florin [EMAIL PROTECTED] probably wrote:
Hi,
I'm testing the coexistence of Win95, Linux Slackware and Free BSD 5.1
on a single physical disk PC ( P133, 16Mo RAM, 3 GO dd).
Just the time to see if I can boot to the OS I want to use.
Then to install
On Wednesday 24 September 2003 03:09 pm, Sergey DoubleF Zaharchenko wrote:
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 17:11:49 +0200 radu.florin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
probably wrote:
Hi,
I'm testing the coexistence of Win95, Linux Slackware and Free BSD 5.1
on a single physical disk PC ( P133, 16Mo RAM, 3 GO dd).
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 16:20:42 -0500, Andrew L. Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Wednesday 24 September 2003 03:09 pm, Sergey DoubleF Zaharchenko
wrote:
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 17:11:49 +0200 radu.florin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
probably wrote:
Hi,
I'm testing the coexistence of Win95, Linux Slackware
Dear freebsd.org:
I got a problem with installation of freebsd v.4.8
I cannot get past the boot manager's F? prompt after installation. Where and How can I
find out exact disc geometry.
Could you help me, please?
Thank you for response.
Martin
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reports the disk geometry at the top of the screen)
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Subject: Re: different disk geometry
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 05:57:47PM +0300, Michael Soboleff
wrote:
I have 40Gb IBM IDE drive, while booting freebsd 4.7 shows
me 79780/16/63 geometry,
but! sysinstall gives me another numbers : 5005
I have 40Gb IBM IDE drive, while booting freebsd 4.7 shows
me 79780/16/63 geometry,
but! sysinstall gives me another numbers : 5005/255/63. The
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79780 * 16 * 63 = 80418240 addressable sectors, or ~40GB
5005 * 255 * 63 = 80405325 addressable sectors, or ~40GB
The first figure (79780/16/63) is the disk geometry that is probably
printed on the label on the front of the disk and is conformant with the
ATA standard. The second figure (5005/255/63
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I have
I have a very strange disk geometry problem: i have 3 OS
installed on my PC (freebsd 5.0, freebsd 4.7 and win xp), after
doing some operations with 'partition magic' in windows and
reboot i found 2 of 3 OS inacessible to choose from freebsd boot
loader and! sysinstall fdisk configurator tells
This may be deja vu if you've been tracking
comp.unix.bsd.freebsd. . . .
The short version:
FreeBSD 4.x is not detecting my hard disk geometry
even remotely correctly. It reports a wildly inflated
cylinder count. I have tried out several Linux
distributions on this hard drive and none of them
the geometry issue, has anyone else run into a similar
problem before?
The BIOS's idea of the disk geometry:
Cyl 28733
Head 16
Precomp 0
Landing Zone 28732
Sector 255
FreeBSD says:
Cyl 7297
Head 255
Sector 63
I could try setting the BIOS geometry to the FreeBSD geometry
(which would require
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