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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!agate!tfs.com!mailhub.tfs.com!julian From: julian@mailhub.tfs.com (Julian Elischer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: SCSI geometry on 9GB Seagate Date: 27 Nov 1995 01:45:20 GMT Organization: TRW Financial Systems, Oakland, CA Lines: 29 Message-ID: <49b57g$b92@times.tfs.com> References: <49b1vo$3ha@news1.is.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: mailhub.tfs.com In article <49b1vo$3ha@news1.is.net>, David Bixby <bix@otcinc.com> wrote: you don't say what version of FreeBSD this is for.. : :I am having problems installing a 9GB Seagate ST410800N drive. : :The boot disk is a Seagate 1GB and works fine. The controller is an :Adaptek AHA2940. I've tried "scsi-select" translation enabled and :disabled and neither seems to work. When I run fdisk to partition :the drive I get a message: :renoir# fdisk sd1 :******* Working on device /dev/rsd1 ******* :parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: :cylinders=131523 heads=27 sectors/track=5 (135 blks/cyl) As there is no disklabel/fdisk part on the drive yet, this is not really relevent.. [..] : :Creating a partition and running disklabel causes a panic shutdown. :Help!!! Any thoughts/advice/solutions appreciated in advance. : if you are not, then you really should be running 2.1 for the 2940 support that has been improved. Justin fixed a lot of problems which were only evident in certain situations..