Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 09:04:30 -0600 (MDT) From: Fred Clift <fred@veriohosting.com> To: Chris Samaritoni <chris@tierranet.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anyone resolved "Missing operating system" issue? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007170848220.42999-100000@vespa.orem.iserver.com> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20000714140031.05787ef8@mail.tierranet.com>
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> We have numerous systems running on ISP2150s and others that use the > L440GX+ motherboards, and we've never had any problems with them running > the SCSI drives in dangerously dedicated mode. As a matter of fact, we've > never had a single system ever have a problem running hard drives in dd > mode. Maybe this issue has something to do with brand of SCSI drive, all of > our drives are Seagate. Just curious, what brand of SCSI drives do you run? Hm -- odd. We use mostly segate drives. I wonder what the difference is? We are running a custom boot-rom in an intel fxp card, but the problem happens wether or not we have one of those installed... I'll have to look up exactly how I do disk labels and see if I can pick your brain. Hm do you take the default disk label that you get with 'auto'? That is one non-standard thing we do -- we munge the disk label sizes so that we end up with 1 meg per cylinder, mostly for one of my coworkers esthetic needs. a partial disklabel dump of a seagate disk is bytes/sector: 512 sectors/track: 2048 tracks/cylinder: 1 sectors/cylinder: 2048 cylinders: 17366 sectors/unit: 35566480 Other than that, we do a standard disklabel -B to the disks.... Hm I'll have to play around with different disklabels and see if the problem goes away. -- Fred Clift - fred@veriohosting.com -- Remember: If brute force doesn't work, you're just not using enough. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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