AHCI and correct drive geometry?

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Wed, 16 Apr 2008, Josef Karthauser wrote:
> So what's the word on AHCI and bios drive geometry? I'm having a real
> pain of a time trying to get some 750gb sata drives running on my
> FreeBSD7 box in AHCI mode. It doesn't seem to matter what disk
> geometry I suggest to sysinstall, something complains of an invalid
> disk upon booting it.
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> Actually, in AHCI mode the bios screen doesn't report any information
> on drive geometry, so all bets appear to be off in giving sysinstall
> the correct figures.

I would think anything this modern would totally ignore CHS and hence 
any warnings about bogus geometry are in themselves totally bogus.

ie just ignore sysinstalls bleatings.

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