RE: Wrong Geometry Disk Problem (Seagate ST3200822A - 200 GB)
The bios disk geometry bug has been an 5.2 release show stopper bug for a lone time. Looks like they still have not corrected it. You should submit an problem report containing much of the data you have in this post. The more people who report this bug the higher up in the severity list it moves and the sooner it will get addressed. Keep in mind that the 5.x series are developer version releases and not intended for production use. 5.x version should only be installed on test machines. 4.9 is the last stable release and the one people should be using if they want an stable operating system. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of David Markle Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2004 12:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Wrong Geometry Disk Problem (Seagate ST3200822A - 200 GB) Hello all, I have a problem installing FreeBSD 5.2.1 onto a Seagate Barracuda ST3200822A - 200 GB ATA/100 Hard Drive. Being a bit gun shy from a previous geometry problem mis-install where I almost lost some serious data, I am reluctant to just try things until they work. So here goes ... Using the Seagate disk tool, I created a 120 GB NTFS partition and a 200 MB FAT16 partition. Installed Windows XP on the 120 GB part. I want to put FreeBSD on the remaining space (~80 GB). The Seagate HD utility states the following: LBA Sectors are 390,721,968. Standard 512 bytes per sector. XBIOS Physical (and HD Spec Sheet from manufacture) (what BSD FDISK Sees too). C16383 H16 S63 BIOS C24321 H255 S63 When the FreeBSD CD boots and enters sysinstall, I get the usual drive geometry error. I've extensively searched google for some sort of method to calculate the true drive geometry with little success. 1. Is the above BIOS info correct ?? 2. Ultimately, do I want the drive geometry to match up with the LBA sectors ?? 3. Can anyone point me towards something that correctly calculates any drive's TRUE geometry ?? Any help is greatly appreciated... david markle ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Wrong Geometry Disk Problem (Seagate ST3200822A - 200 GB)
Yes, I too have encountered the geometry bug a number of times on different machines, and for awhile it put me off to using FreeBSD. Then I discovered that if you just hit g during the partitioning process, it finds the correct geometry and you can continue with the installation. At least, this has worked for me. Nevertheless, I hope the bug will be fixed eventually. It certainly scares away potential FBSD users. regards, Robert On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 12:54:42 -0500 David Markle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I have a problem installing FreeBSD 5.2.1 onto a Seagate Barracuda ST3200822A - 200 GB ATA/100 Hard Drive. Being a bit gun shy from a previous geometry problem mis-install where I almost lost some serious data, I am reluctant to just try things until they work. So here goes... Using the Seagate disk tool, I created a 120 GB NTFS partition and a 200 MB FAT16 partition. Installed Windows XP on the 120 GB part. I want to put FreeBSD on the remaining space (~80 GB). The Seagate HD utility states the following: LBA Sectors are 390,721,968. Standard 512 bytes per sector. XBIOS Physical (and HD Spec Sheet from manufacture) (what BSD FDISK Sees too). C16383 H16 S63 BIOS C24321 H255 S63 When the FreeBSD CD boots and enters sysinstall, I get the usual drive geometry error. I've extensively searched google for some sort of method to calculate the true drive geometry with little success. 1. Is the above BIOS info correct ?? 2. Ultimately, do I want the drive geometry to match up with the LBA sectors ?? 3. Can anyone point me towards something that correctly calculates any drive's TRUE geometry ?? Any help is greatly appreciated... david markle ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
