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From: aak2@Ra.MsState.Edu (Atif Ahmad Khan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: FreeBSD doesn't like my new SCSI drive !
Date: 1 Jul 1996 02:01:42 -0500
Organization: Mississippi State University
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My machine : Pentium-100, 64MB Mem, Adaptec 2940UW SCSI controller
and an Quantum XP34300W 4GB Wide SCSI drive. Oh and an
Intel 100Mbps PCI ethernet card. Disk is a dedicated
FreeBSD drive.
I just got the drive yesterday. I tried installing the latest and
the greatest 2.2-960612-SNAP and when I got to the "partitioning the
drive" part, I got an error message that said that my drive parameters
were incorrect and they were going to be rest to default.
My drive paramaters according to Quantum should be :
3832 Cylinders, 20 heads and 80 to 134 Sectors/track.
FreeBSD doesn't allow more than 64 heads :(
I installed the OS as the auto-geometery thing suggested and ofcourse
it doesn't boot from hard drive. I have to use a floppy drive to boot
the machine.
I tried booting with the Solaris x86 boot disk and it recognized the
disk as having 3850 cylinders, 20 heads and 109 sectors. I was
thinking that maybe I can give the disk some other geometery as I have
heard that with SCSI disks, it doesn't really matter. But I am not
very good at that yet :) so can anybody please help me in that area ?
Thanks a million.
Atif Khan
aak2@ra.msstate.edu