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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!psuvax1!champs!sun From: sun@champs.physci.psu.edu (God(someday)) Subject: NetBSD and Maxtor harddrive. Message-ID: <C9Houq.Ds9@cs.psu.edu> Keywords: Harddrive, NetBSD Sender: sun@champs (God(someday)) Nntp-Posting-Host: champs.physci.psu.edu Organization: Penn State University, Physical Sciences Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1993 14:13:37 GMT Lines: 21 I am using NetBSD-0.8 and a maxtor 7213AT 202MB harddrive. I think I have a especially nasty problem. When I was installing NetBSD, I had to input all the disk parameters like # of head and # of sec/track...But the installation screws up everytime, giving me error messages like partition c extends beyond boundary... I understand that NetBSD cannot handle disk geometry translations, so I called up maxtor and asked about my disk. It turns out that my disk geometry is translated. But, it has five(!) zones, each with a different sec/track! Has anyone else encountered the same problem? I am actually quite lucky. Even with this complication, I ended up having a good root partition. But, I was only able to get 10000 sectors of swap space(actually, I was assigned this number after all the complaining by the installation program). So, my goal is now to get more swap space. I tried changing the partition tabel using disklabel, but that screwed up the root partition and fsck doesn't like it. Please, if anyone has an idea, send me something. Thanks.