Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 10:53:08 -0400 (EDT) From: FreeBSD Mailing List Recieving Account <freebsd@207.100.82.2> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: HP SCSI-2 drive and FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960912104257.15682A-100000@207.100.82.2>
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Hello, I'm installing another server running 2.1.5-RELEASE with an adaptec 152x scsi controller and a 2gig HP SCSI-2 hard drive. When I go into fdisk to setup my BSD partitions, I get a message that says the geometry is incorrect. It says it is 2049/64/32 which is correct, but is not able to write the partitions to the disk. Thing is, Linux works fine and so does SCO with the same geometry. I tried to create a 20mb DOS partition at the beginning of the drive to see if that would re-assure BSD that the geometry is in fact correct, but didn't help. Late last night (who needs sleep? :)) I booted up FreeBSD from floppy yet again and this time, fdisk reported the geometry as 2499/53/32! Well, maybe Linux and SCO just don't care I thought and was able to write the partition and setup my file systems. About halfway through the install however, I started getting messages that /proc was full. Doh! I've tried different SCSI controllers with no luck too. Does anyone know if HP drives have a thing against FreeBSD? All of our other servers are running the same OS, so I'd like to keep everything standard as possible without throwing a different OS onto our LAN. I'm thinking about changing the geometry of the drive at this point from rectangular to flat! :) Thanks, J J Rowley Sleep is a sign of MSCNet SysAdmin / WebMaster caffeine deprivation 407-668-0670 All around cool guy http://www.mscnet.net j@mscnet.net
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