Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 18:44:00 +0100 From: "Edsger" <Edsger@tiscali.nl> To: <freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: drive geometry error Message-ID: <20041211174359.62754A3FF73@ha-smtp0.tiscali.nl> In-Reply-To: <20041128032714.7463.qmail@web11702.mail.yahoo.com>
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I've been reading up my mail and although a little late, I might have some information that can help you. I had the same experience you've had, with my Maxtor of 60 GB. While trying to install freebsd 5.2 a few months ago, the setup complained about a incorrect drive geometry and it suggested also a more likely geometry. I continued and when the settings were finally written to disk my system crashed and my hard drive started to making very weird noises. I ended up sending my hard disk to Maxtor to receive a new one, because my disk wouldn't boot properly anymore. I think the error message you get has nothing to do with some kind of maximum hd-capacity freebsd is able to read (my drive was "only" 60 GB). I've learned that in case with these kind of weird suggestions the installer makes you'd better think twice before applying them. Hope this helps you in some way. I'd like to here if you find out what's causing the errors the installer makes. Edsger -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Jef Dodson Sent: zondag 28 november 2004 4:27 To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: drive geometry error Hello, I am trying to install FreeBSD 5.3 on a 250GB WD IDE drive. I get a message saying that the drive geometry is incorrect and that it is being set to a more likely geometry. When I try to set the geometry to the values I read in the BIOS setup, I get the same error message and the values get set back to the "more likely" values. Everything seems to go fine until I try to commit the installation and then I get a message that the drive could not be written to. The drive currently has a linux filesystem on it and I am trying to use the entire drive for the FreeBSD installation, i.e., I am not sharing the drive with any other OS. Also, the MB is an Asus with an AMD Athlon 3200+ processor, if that matters. I've seen lots of posts in various places about problems similar to this, but no real solutions. I also tried a to install a small DOS partition first as I read somewhere that doing so might help the problem, but it had no effect. Thanks. Jef __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/maildemo _______________________________________________ freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-newbies To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-newbies-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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