Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 19:56:02 +0600 (NOVT) From: "Maxim M. Kazachek" <stranger@sberbank.sibnet.ru> To: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> Cc: FreeBSD Current <FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: SCSI Bios complaints and Disk Slices Message-ID: <20021219195150.D2476-100000@sbk-gw.sibnet.ru> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0212171057050.49862-100000@root.org>
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Tekram DC 390 works under sym(4)... Except 390T which is powered by AMD...
Cliff Sarginson:
Perhaps you need try to play with disk geometry in fdisk... Try to see
what geometry is 1st disk and try set something same on 2nd.
Sincerely, Maxim M. Kazachek
mailto:stranger@sberbank.sibnet.ru
mailto:stranger@fpm.ami.nstu.ru
On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Nate Lawson wrote:
>On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Cliff Sarginson wrote:
>> Windows .. fine, I installed Linux .. fine. Then I installed
>> FreeBSD...fine *but* the SCSI BIOS on bootup complains that the disk
>> geometry is all cockeyed, and it looks that way from what it says.
>> It warns any non-DOS O/S may have problems using it.
>> Well I have had no problems, and fdisk makes no complaints. What has
>> happened to upset the SCSI BIOS ? The thing it seems to hate is that it
>> is getting 63 heads reported instead of 64.
>> It is a Tekram 390 U/W controller, with an IBM 18MB U160 disk.
>> There have never been any other complaints about the 1st SCSI disk.
>> Diagnostics show no problems.
>
>One thing to check is that you should have ">1GB drive support" enabled.
>This needs to be done before installing. See the archives for
>freebsd-scsi list. I am not familiar with trm(4) so perhaps Oliver can
>fill in more.
>
>-Nate
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