From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 14 18:30:06 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58F281065678 for ; Fri, 14 Mar 2008 18:30:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xfb52@dial.pipex.com) Received: from mk-outboundfilter-1.mail.uk.tiscali.com (mk-outboundfilter-1.mail.uk.tiscali.com [212.74.114.37]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E97598FC22 for ; Fri, 14 Mar 2008 18:30:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xfb52@dial.pipex.com) X-Trace: 63579330/mk-outboundfilter-1.mail.uk.tiscali.com/PIPEX/$INTERNET-ACCEPTED/None/62.31.10.181 X-SBRS: None X-RemoteIP: 62.31.10.181 X-IP-MAIL-FROM: xfb52@dial.pipex.com X-IP-BHB: Once X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgABAM9g2kc+Hwq1/2dsb2JhbAAIqic X-IP-Direction: OUT Received: from 62-31-10-181.cable.ubr05.edin.blueyonder.co.uk (HELO [192.168.23.2]) ([62.31.10.181]) by smtp.pipex.tiscali.co.uk with ESMTP; 14 Mar 2008 18:30:04 +0000 Message-ID: <47DAC420.3090806@dial.pipex.com> Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 18:29:52 +0000 From: Alex Zbyslaw User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-GB; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20061205 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Isaac Mushinsky References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SATA problems (Abit IP35-Pro) 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: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 18:30:06 -0000 Isaac Mushinsky wrote: >If I set SATA controller to AHCI, the system boots (although with some ACPI >errors), and I was able to install. However, fdisk thinks that the geometry >is "incorrect", and insists on a different one > Sysinstall nearly always says this, and undoubtedly sysinstall is nearly* always correct. Ignore it and move on. >(it says the drives have >476gb rather than 500gb). > Manufacturers like to make their disks look bigger by using 1000 instead of 1024 when scaling Kb to Gb so: 476 Gb * 1024 * 1024 = 499122176K bytes 500 "Gb" * 1000 * 1000 = 500000000K bytes which is near as dammit the same. --Alex *In ten years of FreeBSD I have seen the warning many times, and seen people asking about the warning many, many, many times. What I never remember seeing is any case where someone needed to do anything about that warning. That doesn't prove anything (my memory is of unknown reliability), but you have my word that it's not *that* bad :-)