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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!oleane!plug.news.pipex.net!pipex!tube.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: Disk geometry for Conner 2.1GB scsi disk? Date: 25 Jan 1996 22:43:22 -0000 Organization: A FreeBSD box Lines: 19 Message-ID: <4e912a$315@parody.tecc.co.uk> References: <4dq32u$c98@qualcomm.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost In article <4dq32u$c98@qualcomm.com>, Elya Kurktchi <kurktchi@qualcomm.com> wrote: >Anybody have the correct disk geometry for a Conner 2.1GB scsi disk? From the Handbook:- "The SCSI BIOS itself presents to the system a so called translated drive. This means that a fake drive table is constructed that allows the PC to boot the drive. This translation is often (but not always) done using a pseudo drive with 32 heads and 64 sectors per track." So it doesn't really make sense to talk about the "correct" geometry. If you're in this situation, use a "fake" geometry with 32 heads, 64 sectors and the drive capacity in MB as the number of cylinders - presumably this would be 2048 in your case. James -- Segmentation fault (core dumped): cannot find file '.signature'