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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