Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2005 21:05:49 +0530 From: "Kamal R. Prasad" <kamalp@acm.org> To: <gayn.winters@bristolsystems.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problems with disk geometry Message-ID: <76023142-F5D4-4387-88D5-013DC7A51EF2@acm.org> In-Reply-To: <059401c5ca92$e1a2dc70$c901a8c0@workdog> References: <059401c5ca92$e1a2dc70$c901a8c0@workdog>
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I found out that my samsung 1604N hard disk can be partitioned without any problem (it is now the primary master with a dvd drive as slave). . The problem lies with disklabel. If I use 'A' option in the sysinstall program's label section,. it expects to find in /dev ad0s1a, ad0s2a etc.. but these don't show up in /dev and the labelling procedure fails. Can someone tell me how to fix this or if this is a bug in this release of freebsd? thanks -kamal On 06-Oct-05, at 9:57 PM, Gayn Winters wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org >> [mailto:owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Kamal >> R. Prasad >> Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 8:56 AM >> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org >> Subject: problems with disk geometry >> >> >> hello, >> >> Im trying to install FreeBSD 6.0 beta5 on a samsung SP1604N hard >> disk of about 160 GB. >> The installer complains that it has a problem with the disk >> geometry. >> The exact message is given below:- >> ------------------------------------------ >> A geometry of 310101/16/63 is incorrect for ad1. Using a more likely >> geometry. If this geometry is incorrect.. pl. consult the >> hardware guide >> ------------------------------------------- >> fdisk goes through the process of creating the reqd slices >> and when I >> try to commit the new partition table -it says it cannot write to / >> dev/ad1. >> >> Can someone tell me how to get past this problem? >> >> thanks >> -kamal >> > > I doubt it is your disk geometry. You will probably need to provide a > little more information. I assume you've got another OS on /dev/ > ad0 and > that you are letting sysinstall put 6.0 onto /dev/ad1 as a > (dangerously) > dedicated drive? What does the BIOS report? How old are the machine > and its BIOS? What does fdisk say when run either standalone or from > the first OS? > > -gayn > > > Kamal R. Prasad UNIX systems consultant http://www.kamalprasad.com/ kamalp@acm.org
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