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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
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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
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