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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!in-news.erinet.com!ddsw1!news.mcs.net!van-bc!news2.cais.net!news.cais.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!News.LiveNet.Net!beast From: jsloan@LiveNet.Net (Jim Sloan) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Invalid Partition Table Date: Thu, 25 Apr 96 05:28:08 GMT Organization: LiveNet, Inc. Lines: 52 Message-ID: <4ln2hl$kjo@PaperBoy.LiveNet.Net> References: <4lb5dh$kuo@paperboy.livenet.net> <4lf930$hmg@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: yellow.livenet.net X-Newsreader: News Xpress 2.0 Beta #0 In article <4lf930$hmg@uriah.heep.sax.de>, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) wrote: >jsloan@LiveNet.Net (Jim Sloan) writes: >>I just recently installed FreeBSD 2.1 on a 3 gig ST 43400N. The drive >>geometry that FreeBSD wanted to use didn't match the specs on the drive, nor >>would it accept the correct geometry (99 SPT, 21 Heads, 2735 cylinders, >>FreeBSD wanted to use 2777 tracks, 64 heads, 27 SPT). I set the drive up as >>42 heads 50 SPT, 2735 tracks, and it accepted it. > >I'm sounding like a broken record here: > >The drive's real geometry is irrelevant. Use the BIOS geometry. >The drive's real geometry is irrelevant. Use the BIOS geometry. >The drive's real geometry is irrelevant. Use the BIOS geometry. >.... Excuse me? but when I installed FreeBSD it was saying the geometry was invalid. I had FreeBSD installed on this once before, and it worked, and after I decided to reinstall it, did it not work. Same settings as I had the first time, only thing I did different was how I partitioned the drive. > >(The drive's real geometry usually doesn't even have a uniform number >of sectors per track across the surface, so it cannot be expressed as >a straight C/H/S value anyway.) > >>If anyone has any suggestions on how to fix this without losing the data I >>currently have on the drive, I would appreciate it. > >Run fdisk, and tweak the C/H/S values of the slice start so they match >the relative sector number of the slice start, in terms of the BIOS >geometry. Be careful. > And how do I determine this? Excuse me if I sound like an idiot, but, I asked because I didn't know how to fix it, if I did know how to do this, I wouldn't have asked. >-- >cheers, J"org > >joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE >Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jim Sloan jsloan@livenet.net Vice President LiveNet, Inc. 413 Davis St. Suite 106 Full Service Internet Provider Virginia Beach VA 23462 Dialup and dedicated connections Ph: 804-499-9328 Virtual Web, Email, and FTP hosting http://www.livenet.net info@livenet.net webmaster@livenet.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------