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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Disk geometry question. Date: 3 Nov 1996 00:11:15 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 35 Message-ID: <55gnv3$q0@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <Pine.SUN.3.95.961030135033.27211A-100000@bert.eecs.uic.edu> 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 Oswaldo Nevarez <onevarez@bert.eecs.uic.edu> wrote: > I have a Conner CFP1080S SCSI HD attached to a BusLogic 948 controller. > I tried creating a DOS and FreeBSD partition. Everytime I created the > FreeBSD slice I noticed that the whole rest of the HD was not used. That's in order to remain compatible with messdos and other operating systems that silently assume that fdisk partitions (FreeBSD slices) must always be aligned to track or cylinder boundaries (however ficticous the geometry figures might be on a modern disk). The only way to avoid this is using a ``dangerously dedicated'' disk where all the disk space is devoted to FreeBSD. This will dedicate any and all blocks of your disk to FreeBSD. > not found on the cdrom. Then if I tried to reinstall, without rebooting, > I would get an error that my cdrom was busy, however the cdrom was not > spinning. ``busy'' == ``not ready'' > If this is not the problem, what is? Not sure. You didn't tell us about your CD drive, and infact, didn't really tell us at all what's actually going wrong there. Neither did you write about your FreeBSD version. That's most likely something with the CD-ROM handling. -- 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. ;-)