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Path: sserve!euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!news.starnet.net!wupost!newsreader.wustl.edu!usenet From: Matt Rosenberg <mar7@cec.wustl.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Adaptec 2742W and Seagate ST43401N Date: 9 Aug 1995 15:14:40 GMT Organization: Washington University in St. Louis, MO USA Lines: 31 Message-ID: <40ajd0$ito@newsreader.wustl.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: @dialin-41.wustl.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.2b4 (Windows; I; 32bit) To: questions@freebsd.org,jkh@freebsd.org I have never had any trouble with FreeBSD on IDE drives, but have hit a snag trying to install it on a system with only a floppy and a 3GB SCSI. It has an Adaptec 2742W and a Seagate ST43401N. During the installation disk boot, the Adaptec is correctly probed, but the drive is recognized as something with the wrong geometry. I get the following debugging message on ttyv1: "sd0: error reading primary partition table reading fsbn 0 (sd0 bn0; cn0 tn0 sn0)" The disk works perfectly under DOS and has passed a whole battery of diagnostic tests there with flying colors. I was told to change the labelling on the disk, but under the installation menu I'm told I can't label it until I partition it, and the installation program won't let me partition it because it claims I don't have a hard drive. So how can I exit the installation menu to enter a labeling command without forcing a reboot? And will that even solve my problem? One note: DOS reads the logical geometry of the disk as 354 cylinders 255 sides and 63 S/T. The physical geometry is actually 2738 cylinders and 21 sides. As far as I know only the system BIOS is converting the geometry to LBA. ============================================= Matt Rosenberg Washington University School of Law St. Louis, MO, USA mar7@cec.wustl.edu ; rosenbem@wulaw.wustl.edu http://www.cec.wustl.edu/~mar7/ =============================================