From owner-freebsd-bugs Wed Oct 11 00:42:47 1995 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id AAA26764 for bugs-outgoing; Wed, 11 Oct 1995 00:42:47 -0700 Received: from gildrum.ccon.com.au (gildrum.ccon.com.au [202.20.81.76]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id AAA26759 for ; Wed, 11 Oct 1995 00:42:42 -0700 Received: (from mail@localhost) by gildrum.ccon.com.au (8.6.11/8.6.9) id RAA03715 for ; Wed, 11 Oct 1995 17:42:53 +1000 Received: from jeckyll.ccon.com.au(172.17.12.200) by gildrum.ccon.com.au via smap (V1.3) id sma003710; Wed Oct 11 17:42:30 1995 X-Sender: brett@mail Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Priority: 1 (Highest) Date: Wed, 11 Oct 1995 17:43:34 +1000 To: bugs@freebsd.org From: brett_robertson@ccon.com.au (Brett Robertson) Subject: Inability to use certain SCSI drives Sender: owner-bugs@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Gentlemen, I am experiencing a problem with snapshot 950726. I am trying to install onto a 1G SCSI drive, an IBM DPES 31080. I get a message from the Installer saying that there is a problem with the drive geometry. The drive has 4903 cylinders, 4 heads and 108 sectors. I ignored the problem, created the partition and installed FreeBSD. I then tried to boot from the drive, only to get a message stating that there was no operating system on the drive. I have also tried a Quantum 1050S with a geometry of 2448/12/92, an IBM DSAS-3360 350M, a Fujitsu 1G, a Quantum 350 and a Quantum 540 all with cylinder counts of greater than 2400. The Installer reports that every one of them has a geometry problem. I am using a Compaq 486SX25 with 12M RAM and an Adaptec 1540 SCSI controller. Am I doing something wrong? Have I forgotten to do something? Is this a known problem? Is there a fix/patch available? Thanks in advance Brett R. P.S. I do have a 160M Quantum SCSI drive that is working on this system, but it is far to small to be usable. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- In this world of NetSurfing, I'm the poor sod who has to wax the surfboards. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brett Robertson | brett_robertson@ccon.com.au. Technical Support Consultant | Choice Connections | this space is intentionally left blank Melbourne, Australia | I couldn't think of anything to put here ----------------------------------------------------------------------------