Netcell SyncRaid SR3000/SR5000 FreeBSD
Jonathan Gilpin
jonathan at fluent.ltd.uk
Thu Jun 16 13:14:51 GMT 2005
>These problems are unrelated. FreeBSD does not care about drive
>geometry. The reason fdisk(1) mentions it is that the geometry (or
>actually a fake but plausible geometry - modern disks can't be
>accurately described in terms of C/H/S) is encoded in the MBR for
>legacy reasons. If the numbers in the MBR are wrong, the BIOS may be
>unable to load FreeBSD from disk when it boots.
Would asking the manufacturer to suggest a suitable geometry for FreeBSD solve
anything?
Or are there any tools which can be used to do this?
Jonathan
http://www.fluent.ltd.uk/
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