At about the time of 12/26/2005 5:45 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] stated the
following:
I am trying to back up the drive I have been using (which is now full)
onto a 60GB Seagate IDE drive - ST360020A. After a bunch of failures at
configuring the disk, I did some searching on the web and found some info
on the drive geometry bug.
I followed the directions I found there - essentially, go into my BIOS at
boot time, write down the drive geometry that the BIOS thinks I have and
then plug those numbers into FreeBSD fdisk at the beginning of
installation.
What happened:
1. FreeBSD complained that the drive geometry it was seeing was wrong, and
was using its own best guess: 7297/255/63.
2. I hit G and edited the C/H/S to that which the BIOS reported:
28733/16/255.
3. I hit Enter; the installer said `Nope, you're wrong! I'm going to use
my best guess instead!'
No matter how many times I try to enter the info, it changes it back to
whatever it thinks is more correct.
I tried switching the head and sector info (trying 28733/255/16). but no joy.
Is there a way to coax the installer into cooperating?
Thanks -
-- paz.
I just recently ran into this problem myself. Just use FreeBSD's best
guess and it will work fine. If you set the BIOS to LBA mode, you will
find that matches FreeBSD's best guess.
--
Daniel Rudy
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