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From: julian@mailhub.tfs.com (Julian Elischer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: SCSI geometry on 9GB Seagate
Date: 27 Nov 1995 01:45:20 GMT
Organization: TRW Financial Systems, Oakland, CA
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In article <49b1vo$3ha@news1.is.net>, David Bixby  <bix@otcinc.com> wrote:
you don't say what version of FreeBSD this is for..
:
:I am having problems installing a 9GB Seagate ST410800N drive.
:
:The boot disk is a Seagate 1GB and works fine. The controller is an 
:Adaptek AHA2940. I've tried "scsi-select" translation enabled and 
:disabled and neither seems to work. When I run fdisk to partition 
:the drive I get a message:

:renoir# fdisk sd1
:******* Working on device /dev/rsd1 *******
:parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
:cylinders=131523 heads=27 sectors/track=5 (135 blks/cyl)

As there is no disklabel/fdisk part on the drive yet,
this is not really relevent..
[..]
:
:Creating a partition and running disklabel causes a panic shutdown. 
:Help!!! Any thoughts/advice/solutions appreciated in advance.
:

if you are not, then you really should be running 2.1 for the 2940
support that has been improved.

Justin fixed a lot of problems which were only evident in certain situations..