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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.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!news.ksu.ksu.edu!news.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!news.dfn.de!news.uni-jena.de!news.HRZ.HAB-Weimar.DE!News.HTWM.De!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Help with (ugh!) Geometry Date: 17 Jan 1996 23:14:12 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 23 Message-ID: <4djvs4$d6u@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4di40l$9g1@spectator.cris.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 Judasg@cris.com (Damien Thorn) writes: > Although I feel like i'm an adolescent again, asking Dad for help with > troublesome math homework, the truth is that I really do need some help > with disk geometry. Despite many months of lurking here and reading the > assorted faqs, buying books, etc., now that the time has arrived to > configure some new SCSI arrays, I'm stuck with the unrelenting message > about incorrect disk geometry. Any help with this would be greatly > appreciated... If you are going to dedicate your drives entirely to FreeBSD, and you happen to run FreeBSD >= 2.1R, simply select the ``dangerously dedicated'' option in the partitioning menu. (This is the non-default answer after selecting A)ll disk for FreeBSD.) This should get you going without ever thinking about something like a geometry again. (Ignore all warnings about ``The detected geometry is invalid'', however. They are not for you.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)