Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 14:40:59 -0400 From: "Isaac Mushinsky" <itz@mushinsky.net> To: "Alex Zbyslaw" <xfb52@dial.pipex.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SATA problems (Abit IP35-Pro) Message-ID: <bbe9e35d0803141140r1ae3004bq9b64e83d89049d3c@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <47DAC420.3090806@dial.pipex.com> References: <bbe9e35d0803141057g7cae815bl8d80b0429280627b@mail.gmail.com> <47DAC420.3090806@dial.pipex.com>
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On 3/14/08, Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com> wrote: > > 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 :-) > > > > Thanks. I thought so about the size, just wondered whether there is anything wrong with the geometry warning. I don't remember encountering it before. Although I use FreeBSD since 2.x, my last sysinstall was many years ago.
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