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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!news.uoregon.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!oleane!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.mathworks.com!newscaster-1.mcast.net!informatik.uni-bremen.de!cs.tu-berlin.de!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: old IDE hd Date: 15 Jun 1996 19:03:42 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 18 Message-ID: <4pv1ee$84e@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4pp5nf$bb0@news.demos.su> 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 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E ale@sf.demos.su (Alexey Mikhailov) wrote: > i have a problem with my second hd - it's very old 100MB Conner drive > and FreeBSD2.1.0 doesn't recognize it's geometry. the question is - > how can i set up drive's geometry manually ? What do you mean by ``not recognizing the geometry''? The only relevant geometry for FreeBSD is what the BIOS thinks about the drive. If FreeBSD's idea differs from this one, select G) in the partition editor, and adjust its idea. -- 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. ;-)