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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!newsfeed.ksu.ksu.edu!news.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!lll-winken.llnl.gov!nntp.coast.net!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD <> Adaptec Date: 11 May 1996 11:57:21 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 38 Message-ID: <4n1vb1$rjj@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <jm040795-0905961029200001@mencju.apple.com> <31932519.15FB7483@mindspring.com> <jm040795-1005961526540001@mencju.apple.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E jm040795@fhda.edu (Raven) wrote: > I used the utility to fdisk my second hard drive. It complained about the > geometry on the drive. You should have read the installation notes to see what to do in this case. In short: if the displayed geometry matches your BIOS' setting (which the installation program cannot always verify itself without human interaction -- that's why the warning), then leave it as it is. Otherwise, hit G) and enter the BIOS geometry settings. > Afterwards, my hard drives geometry was screwed > up. A "hard drives geometry" cannot be "screwed up". A geometry is (in the original sense) something that is determined by physical parameters, not by software. For all IDE drives, the geometry values are always faked ones, and they are determined by the BIOS setup. Of course, FreeBSD does not and cannot change the BIOS settings (it doesn't even know what a BIOS might be, or how to handle it). > I had to do a low level format. That's been your panic reaction. Don't hold us liable for your data loss. You wouldn't have to format the drive. You should only have to *low-level* format any modern drive in very rare situations these days, basically only if your drive experienced too much bad sectors to remap them itself. Formatting can help here be re-organising the drives' internal bad sector replacement table. Anyway, i doubt you even low-level formatted, you more likely have dumped a bunch of zeroes all over it. -- 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. ;-)