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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
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Message-ID: <4acgbt$tc@parody.tecc.co.uk>
References: <andrew-0912951906220001@dslip2.cc.utas.edu.au>
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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
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