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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.sprintlink.net!usenet.kornet.nm.kr!ames!newsfeed.gsfc.nasa.gov!centauri.hq.nasa.gov!centauri.hq.nasa.gov!cshenton From: cshenton@wirehead.hq.nasa.gov (Chris Shenton) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Install -- SCSI geometry incorrect (was OK before!) Date: 29 Sep 1995 19:32:15 GMT Organization: NASA Headquarters Lines: 22 Message-ID: <CSHENTON.95Sep29153215@wirehead.hq.nasa.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: wirehead.hq.nasa.gov cc: hardware@freebsd.org,newell@lupine.nsi.nasa.gov,cshenton I've been running FreeBSD (-stable) OK off a 350MB wd disk with another filesystem on a 1GB scsi. Recent attempts to rebuild the system (from -current) indicated my / partition was too small so I'm loading the 950726 SNAP. I repartitioned the wd ok, but when I try to repartition the sd it tells me that the geometry is incorrect and to use the G(eometry) menu to fix it manually; for some reason it seems to think the disk has three heads or something. I tried the specs listed in www.seagate.com (2700 cyls / 9 heads / 84 sec/trk) but again the install:parition fails on incorrect geometry. I think maybe I trashed something, so use the AHA controller's diagnostic boot menu to format the drive. After an 30 minutes or so formatting, I try again. And again, geometry error on the parameters which format apparantly put on the drive (oops, didn't write them down)-:. Any ideas here, and how to recover? Thanks.