Problems with 170MB HD (FreeBSD 6.0)

[dick hoogendijk]

On 04 Dec Christian Wurst wrote:
> I booted up from CD and started creating slices on the HDs, which
> worked perfectly for the primary master HD (the 10GB one). But
> sysinstall complained about an incorrect geometry setting for the
> 170MB drive and asked me to enter them manually. I didn't want to
> reboot to get the BIOS values and tried to finish the install without
> swap at all - which worked.

> Both drives worked well under Linux, so I think
> it's no hardware-problem.
> 
> Any hints would be greatly appreciated.

FreeBSD not only suggested to give the values manually; it also assumed
the right values itself!
You say both drives work well under linux. I can tell you from own
experience that the drive values linux uses are 99.9% the _same_ as the
guessed values by freebsd.
So, my advice would be: dont use the bios values; leave the guessed
values alone. (freebsd not linux are stupid ;-)

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