From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 17 7:56:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gatekeeper.veriohosting.com (gatekeeper.veriohosting.com [192.41.0.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0691237B9F2 for ; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 07:56:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fred@veriohosting.com) Received: by gatekeeper.veriohosting.com; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 08:56:33 -0600 (MDT) Received: from unknown(192.168.1.7) by gatekeeper.veriohosting.com via smap (V3.1.1) id xma025775; Mon, 17 Jul 00 08:56:05 -0600 Received: from vespa.orem.iserver.com (vespa.orem.iserver.com [192.168.1.144]) by orca.orem.veriohosting.com [Verio Web Hosting, Inc. 801.437.0200] (8.8.8) id IAA53919; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 08:56:04 -0600 (MDT) Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 09:04:30 -0600 (MDT) From: Fred Clift X-Sender: fred@vespa.orem.iserver.com To: Chris Samaritoni Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anyone resolved "Missing operating system" issue? In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20000714140031.05787ef8@mail.tierranet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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