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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!hookup!jussieu.fr!centre.univ-orleans.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!in2p3.fr!swidir.switch.ch!newsfeed.ACO.net!Austria.EU.net!EU.net!howland.reston.ans.net!plug.news.pipex.net!pipex!dish.news.pipex.net!pipex!handbag.tecc.co.uk!parody.tecc.co.uk!not-for-mail From: james@parody.tecc.co.uk (James Raynard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: HELP: Conner 1G SCSI geometry Date: 9 Dec 1995 17:17:49 -0000 Organization: A FreeBSD box Lines: 15 Message-ID: <4acgbt$tc@parody.tecc.co.uk> References: <andrew-0912951906220001@dslip2.cc.utas.edu.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost In article <andrew-0912951906220001@dslip2.cc.utas.edu.au>, Andrew <andrew@elysium.clare.tased.edu.au> wrote: >Hi, > >Any ideas anyone? Do I _have_ to give the right geometery as the SCSI >contoller BIOS must know what it is? Indeed it does, but you need to use the "fake" geometry it presents to the rest of the system, ie n cylinders, 32 heads and 64 sectors/track, where n is the drive capacity in MB. (See section 9.2.2.1 of the handbook if you want the full details). James -- Segmentation fault (core dumped): cannot find file '.signature'