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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!newspump.sol.net!howland.erols.net!feed1.news.erols.com!worldnet.att.net!uunet!in1.uu.net!198.68.191.16!news.accessone.com!news From: mjc@accessone.com (Mark Crosland) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: boot problem, scsi Date: Sat, 07 Dec 1996 08:40:09 GMT Organization: AccessOne Lines: 27 Message-ID: <58balu$jr3@kanga.accessone.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: mjc.accessone.com X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 Hello, OK, booting from boot.flp, 2.1.5 CDROM distribution. I have 2 HP scsi disks (id 0 and 2) and scsi cdrom (id 2), and an ncr 53c810 pci scsi controller. The boot sequence detects the drives and prints the manufacturers info, etc... I get to the setup menu, go to create some partitons, and get a message telling me I have no drives. So I read the FAQ, find something regarding FreeBSD can't deal with disk geometry translations, so use pfdisk.exe to 'tell' the bios/contoller the real disk geometry. I ran pfdisk and printed the geometry of one of the disks, 1019, 66, 63. The HD manual says there are actually 3000 or so cylinders, not 1019. My question is, after running pfdisk and changing the view my controller has of the disk, what does this do to my data that is currently on the disk. Thanks, Mark Crosland mjc@accessone.com