From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Apr 15 23:43:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from ulairi.csun.edu (ulairi.csun.edu [130.166.10.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4783737B404 for ; Mon, 15 Apr 2002 23:43:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 6138 invoked by uid 60001); 16 Apr 2002 06:40:59 -0000 Received: from 68.66.191.245 ( [68.66.191.245]) as user ulairi@ulairi.csun.edu by ulairi.csun.edu with HTTP; Mon, 15 Apr 2002 23:40:58 +0700 Message-ID: <1018939258.3cbbc77ade362@ulairi.csun.edu> Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 23:40:58 +0700 From: ulairi@ulairi.org To: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Weirdness with HD geometry MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 2.3.7-cvs Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org First, the setup particulars: SuperMicro P6DBE motherboard, bios rev 3.1 Seagate 40 GB UDMA drive is master on IDE0 36x generic CDROM is master on IDE1 BIOS says geometry is 16838/16/63, which matches the printed label on the drive. 4.5R install CD in boot-v mode shows that ad0 is detected with 77545/16/63 geometry, which is... insane. Tried using both the kernel-detected geometry, and the BIOS-detected one - same result: "read error" trying to boot. Am I missing something blatantly obvious or should I go get the chicken and the goat ready for the sacrificial rites of Black Magic of FreeBSD (tm)? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message