FreeBSD 6.0 && fdisk = bad disk geometry ?

[Lowell Gilbert]

Theorem <theorem21 at gmail.com> writes:

> I'm having trouble setting up a new RAID5 array.  It's a RocketRAID
> 1740 with 4x 500G disks, in RAID5 this gives approx. 1.5T of space.
> It looks like it's operating properly on /dev/da0 .
>
> Unfortunately, when I go to FDISK this via /usr/sbin/sysinstall I see
> the same error over and over and over trying to set my disk to the
> right cycls / heads / sectors.
>
> here are 2 screenshots of the messages :
>
> http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y260/theorem21/manual_set_err.jpg
> http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y260/theorem21/repeat_set_err.jpg
>
> Even trying to set the disk manually gives the "repeat_set_err.jpg",
> so I can't possibly have a correct disk geometry.
>
> Can anyone help me out ?  Any suggestions are welcome, I don't know if
> ignoring this is the best option.

There is more information in the FAQ, but yes, you should be able to
ignore it if the system seems to be working fine.