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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.uwa.edu.au!disco.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!cssun.mathcs.emory.edu!nntp.msstate.edu!Ra.MsState.Edu!aak2 From: aak2@Ra.MsState.Edu (Atif Ahmad Khan) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD doesn't like my new SCSI drive ! Date: 1 Jul 1996 22:45:32 -0500 Organization: Mississippi State University Lines: 21 Message-ID: <aak2.836278778@Ra.MsState.Edu> References: <aak2.836203112@Ra.MsState.Edu> <4r8sbd$jl9@news.ios.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ra.msstate.edu X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #2 (NOV) rashid@rk.ios.com (Rashid Karimov) writes: > FreeBSD recalculates HDD geometries into XXXX/64/32 formula, > where XXXX equals 1024 for 1G,2048 for 2 GB and so on. > It is absolutely normal and won't cause any problems. > The physical geometry of HDD has very little sense for SCSI. Rashid, Thanks for the helpful reply. I went ahead and reformatted the entire drive and re-installed everything from scratch, using the default Geometry provided by FreeBSD. Everything works fine but when booting, system cant find the kernel. I have to boot with floppy and tell it where the kernel is. I haven't read the FAQ yet, but thats the next thing I will be looking at. If you have any ideas please let me know. Thanks very much. Atif Khan aak2@ra.msstate.edu http://www2.msstate.edu/~aak2/pak.html