Date: Sat, 3 Jun 1995 10:58:41 +1000 (EST) From: David Dawes <dawes@physics.usyd.edu.au> To: fcawth@squid.umd.edu (Fred Cawthorne) Cc: julian@ref.tfs.com, terry@cs.weber.edu, taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw, jkh@freefall.cdrom.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can't boot a new 2.0.5A system Message-ID: <199506030058.AA09265@physics.su.oz.au> In-Reply-To: <9506021700.AA22388@squid.umd.edu> from "Fred Cawthorne" at Jun 2, 95 01:00:07 pm
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>The new install got the wrong geometry even when I had FreeBSD 2.0 on >the entire disk... Perhaps there was a problem with the stuff that >an old fdisk created??? I don't remember if I ever installed with an NCR >controller before. (I used to have an Adaptec 1542CF on here...) >So, maybe my NCR scsi bios is messing things up??? >Are you guys sure that the user setting of the geometry thing (i.e. G in >the fdisk screen) is working properly?? I've seen some odd things with the NCR bios (or FreeBSD's interpretation of it) when adding a second disk to a 9504 snap installation (the first disk was IDE). It claimed my disk was about twice its actual size (I wish :-). It seemed to be using 64 and 32 for heads/sectors, but using the cylinder value that the disk reported (2700 for an ST31200). I don't know if having used the disk with a 1542 previously (on SVR4), and using its translation is affecting this. David
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