Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 18:30:22 +0200 (MET DST) From: Robert Eckardt <roberte@mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> To: freebsd@207.100.82.2 (FreeBSD Mailing List Recieving Account) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HP SCSI-2 drive and FreeBSD Message-ID: <199609121630.SAA11879@gluon.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960912104257.15682A-100000@207.100.82.2> from FreeBSD Mailing List Recieving Account at "12. Sep. 96 10:49:56"
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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. I'm using a 1542B with an hp3725S without problems. I installed a DOS partition on it and use a fairly recent ASPI4DOS, which gives (for drives > 1GB) 255 heads. Thus, my geometry looks like ******* Working on device /dev/rsd1 ******* parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=261 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) > 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 All your systems should agree upon the same geometry. BTW, once upon a time I tried to install Slackware 3.0, but all SCSI kernels refused to recognise my Adaptec correctly. Usually they complained on "aha1542_in: (3) Unable to determine Adaptec DMA priority. ..." (I use the factory default DMA 5.) > 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. It think, this is a different story. I assume that you were going to add a lot of packages. Unfortunately, KNOWNBUGS.TXT says: : Problem: When installing 30 or more packages in one pass during the initial : installation, a "too many processes" failure occurs. > 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 Hope this helps, Robert -- Robert Eckardt ( Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Inst.f.Theor.Physik, NB6/169 ) Universitaetsstrasse 150, D-44780 Bochum, Germany ----X---8---- Telefon: +49 234 700-3709, Telefax: +49 234 7094-574 8 E-Mail: RobertE@MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de --------8---- URL: http://WWW.MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de/~roberte >>> To be successful one needs friends, <<< >>> To be very successful one needs enemies. <<<
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