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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!warwick!zaphod.crihan.fr!jussieu.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!frmug.fr.net!renux.frmug.fr.net!keltia.frmug.fr.net!not-for-mail From: roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net (Ollivier Robert) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Subject: Re: fdisk Date: 4 Feb 1994 00:32:30 +0100 Organization: A Happy FreeBSD-current Usenet Site Lines: 64 Message-ID: <2is1is$392@keltia.frmug.fr.net> References: <0hI0M_u00WB7EC5GkR@andrew.cmu.edu> <2ipjg4$mcq@explorer.clark.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: keltia.frmug.fr.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <2ipjg4$mcq@explorer.clark.net>, Eric S. Hvozda <ack@clark.net> wrote: >reports BIOS geometery, not the native geometery. *BSD doesn't like >translated geometeries in general. I have to disagree :-) The probe code reports the real geometry as you say but if you have a DOS partition on your hard drive and a SCSI disk, it is better and easier to use the translated one. dmesg reports that : FreeBSD 1.0.10 (KELTIA_PCC) #3: Mon Jan 31 21:26:47 MET 1994 roberto@keltia:/spare/FreeBSD-current/src/sys/compile/KELTIA_PCC CPU: i486DX (486-class CPU) real mem = 16773120 avail mem = 15257600 [...] aha0 targ 0 lun 0: type 0(direct) fixed SCSI1 aha0 targ 0 lun 0: <MICROP 1624-07MZ1077801HZ2P> sd0: 642MB (1316751 total sec), 2112 cyl, 7 head, 89 sec, bytes/sec 512 aha0 targ 1 lun 0: type 0(direct) fixed SCSI1 aha0 targ 1 lun 0: <CONNER CP3200-200mb-3.53233> sd1: 203MB (415872 total sec), 1368 cyl, 8 head, 38 sec, bytes/sec 512 [...] However my disklabel is like that : # /dev/rsd0d: type: SCSI disk: mp1624 label: flags: bytes/sector: 512 sectors/track: 32 tracks/cylinder: 64 sectors/cylinder: 2048 cylinders: 641 rpm: 3600 interleave: 1 trackskew: 0 cylinderskew: 0 headswitch: 0 # milliseconds track-to-track seek: 0 # milliseconds drivedata: 0 8 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg] a: 20480 309248 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 151 - 160) b: 65536 329728 swap # (Cyl. 161 - 192) c: 1003520 309248 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 151 - 640) d: 1312768 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 640) e: 24576 395264 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 193 - 204) f: 122880 419840 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 205 - 264) g: 770048 542720 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 265 - 640) h: 307168 32 MSDOS # (Cyl. 0*- 149*) My first HD is using the usual Adaptec translated parameters : 64 heads with 32 sectors per tracks and so on. Works fine here. -- Ollivier ROBERT Ollivier.Robert@keltia.frmug.fr.net A FreeBSD & PERL addict... PGP 2.3a Public Key on request Running FreeBSD-current and very happy to do so !