From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 25 13:57:44 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41D1616A420 for ; Thu, 25 May 2006 13:57:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDA9743D48 for ; Thu, 25 May 2006 13:57:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.13.6+Sun/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k4PDvgEE016250; Thu, 25 May 2006 09:57:42 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.13.6+Sun/8.13.6/Submit) id k4PDvgCb016249; Thu, 25 May 2006 09:57:42 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200605251357.k4PDvgCb016249@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: jdow@earthlink.net (jdow) Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 09:57:42 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <02d301c67f67$482b15a0$0225a8c0@Wednesday> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL7] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Disk Geometry Errors. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 13:57:44 -0000 > > One thing that comes to mind, as I read below, is that it appears you > setup the drives for RAID 1. Then you transplanted to them to a RAID 5 > controller. "Of course" the partition data will be wrong. The hidden > blocks the two RAID controllers use are probably different and the > method of storage for RAID 5 is quite different from that used by RAID 1. > > (Worse yet, you may have managed to hose the drives so that any data > on them is gone.) > > {^_^} Joanne > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Lisandro Grullon" > > Hi Kevin and thanks for repplyng, sysinstall does not crach at all, the > problem is that the information is not retain by the label. I keep getting > that contact "Disk Geometry" error when I try fdisk into the volume/drive. > Any ideas what is happening. let me know what other information you may need > to assist me further. I didn't follow all of this thread, so I may be missing something, but check the FAQs and the list archives. Geometry error messages and apparent (but not actual) mismatched have been discussed many times. Nowdays disk geometry as used by the OS is generally "virtual" and does not exactly reflect the actual physical geometry. In other words, from the point of view of how you use it, unless you are creating special driver code, the geometry is fiction and, as long as it works, take what the OS says and ignore any messages from fdisk. Now, if it is truly failing, you have non-fictional problems. ////jerry > > On 5/24/06, Kevin Kinsey wrote: > > > > Lisandro Grullon wrote: > > > Good Morning, > > > > > > Last night I was trying installing a new Areca controller 1120 8 ports > > > using a 5 bay (300GB seagate) drives Raid 5. The main OS is install > > using the > > > SATA controller in RAID 1 configuration of the mother board, the > > addition of > > > last night was a separate controller I install.The install when good and > > I > > > installed my modules in the kernel, now my problem is when I try to > > > partition the volume using fdisk/label with system install it is giving > > me > > > nasty disk geometry incorrect error, can anyone tell me what is this all > > > about? Thank you. > > > > We'd probably need some more information. Does sysinstall crash? > > Does the fdisk information get written to disk anyway? The label? > > > > KDK > > > > -- > > Zero Mostel: That's it baby! When you got it, flaunt it! Flaunt it! > > -- Mel Brooks, The Producers > > > > > > > -- > Lisandro Grullon > New York City College of Technology > Division of Continuing Education > Director of Network Operations > Lisandro Office: 1718-552-1178 > Lisandro E-mail: lgrullon@citytech.cuny.edu > "The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.". > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >