From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 1 06:23:56 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAFF316A403 for ; Tue, 1 May 2007 06:23:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from theorem21@gmail.com) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.237]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A700013C448 for ; Tue, 1 May 2007 06:23:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from theorem21@gmail.com) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id s18so1860574wxc for ; Mon, 30 Apr 2007 23:23:55 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=JUURVmbW8n6kEM8X/gko5BzrGSZjfd1i+9qXYglVZHbAJQQL+qYJ9Kfb6EdbBNg72hQfU3zcfEig2BWM/soaiwr5H+q5yZ1P0GUd5Tz9Fk/DnPfkg2mwn9tFYo1MnW/T3Iur/7mX22CxlG5NCGm9Ebg+3H+0ImlZRadGKxf/hQ4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=YtGhW6Oy/MSnPu/5buR1++uHOlhK6uLiY6x6+4JPozml7gABsUnlHYbLtRiD1s0l9RGF7ORps+3WR185gIQaQqWVWrSGDeJ5iQbHJ0rdsBPmBZzmoXWaTGMNYpoWJxrQN4tTi0l+8yF+YGJKxwKSchwD/0xRqvnhi7HcEqsbXJY= Received: by 10.90.27.13 with SMTP id a13mr5901446aga.1177998895005; Mon, 30 Apr 2007 22:54:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?10.10.0.6? ( [71.251.196.94]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id 6sm8342185agd.2007.04.30.22.54.53; Mon, 30 Apr 2007 22:54:54 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4636D629.2010709@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 01 May 2007 01:54:49 -0400 From: Theorem User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (Windows/20070221) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: FreeBSD 6.0 && fdisk = bad disk geometry ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: theorem21@gmail.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 May 2007 06:23:57 -0000 I'm having trouble setting up a new RAID5 array. It's a RocketRAID 1740 with 4x 500G disks, in RAID5 this gives approx. 1.5T of space. It looks like it's operating properly on /dev/da0 . Unfortunately, when I go to FDISK this via /usr/sbin/sysinstall I see the same error over and over and over trying to set my disk to the right cycls / heads / sectors. here are 2 screenshots of the messages : http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y260/theorem21/manual_set_err.jpg http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y260/theorem21/repeat_set_err.jpg Even trying to set the disk manually gives the "repeat_set_err.jpg", so I can't possibly have a correct disk geometry. Can anyone help me out ? Any suggestions are welcome, I don't know if ignoring this is the best option. Thanks, theorem