From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 24 15:38:04 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 E5A6C16A569 for ; Wed, 24 May 2006 15:38:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from ezekiel.daleco.biz (southernuniform.com [66.76.92.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04B6643D5C for ; Wed, 24 May 2006 15:38:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from [192.168.2.2] ([69.27.149.254]) by ezekiel.daleco.biz (8.13.4/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k4OFc0LW082971; Wed, 24 May 2006 10:38:01 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Message-ID: <44747DD3.9040805@daleco.biz> Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 10:37:55 -0500 From: Kevin Kinsey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8.0.2) Gecko/20060509 SeaMonkey/1.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lisandro Grullon References: <9a4a258a0605240749j6901765auf942c5c6cd99671e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <9a4a258a0605240749j6901765auf942c5c6cd99671e@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed 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: Wed, 24 May 2006 15:38:16 -0000 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