From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 9 08:13:24 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id IAA17141 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 9 Aug 1995 08:13:24 -0700 Received: from cec.wustl.edu (cec.wustl.edu [128.252.158.11]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id IAA17135 ; Wed, 9 Aug 1995 08:13:21 -0700 Received: from mattrose (dialin-41.wustl.edu) by cec.wustl.edu (5.x/ECL-A1.27) id AA06569; Wed, 9 Aug 1995 10:13:08 -0500 Message-Id: <9508091513.AA06569@cec.wustl.edu> Date: Wed, 09 Aug 95 10:11:54 -0500 From: Matt Rosenberg X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.2b4 (Windows; I; 32bit) Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc To: questions@freebsd.org, jkh@freebsd.org Subject: Adaptec 2742W and Seagate ST43401N Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk I have never had any trouble with FreeBSD on IDE drives, but have hit a snag trying to install it on a system with only a floppy and a 3GB SCSI. It has an Adaptec 2742W and a Seagate ST43401N. During the installation disk boot, the Adaptec is correctly probed, but the drive is recognized as something with the wrong geometry. I get the following debugging message on ttyv1: "sd0: error reading primary partition table reading fsbn 0 (sd0 bn0; cn0 tn0 sn0)" The disk works perfectly under DOS and has passed a whole battery of diagnostic tests there with flying colors. I was told to change the labelling on the disk, but under the installation menu I'm told I can't label it until I partition it, and the installation program won't let me partition it because it claims I don't have a hard drive. So how can I exit the installation menu to enter a labeling command without forcing a reboot? And will that even solve my problem? One note: DOS reads the logical geometry of the disk as 354 cylinders 255 sides and 63 S/T. The physical geometry is actually 2738 cylinders and 21 sides. As far as I know only the system BIOS is converting the geometry to LBA. ============================================= Matt Rosenberg Washington University School of Law St. Louis, MO, USA mar7@cec.wustl.edu ; rosenbem@wulaw.wustl.edu http://www.cec.wustl.edu/~mar7/ =============================================