RE: drive geometry error

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To: <freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org>
Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 18:44:00 +0100

I've been reading up my mail and although a little late, I might have some
information that can help you. I had the same experience you've had, with my
Maxtor of 60 GB. While trying to install freebsd 5.2 a few months ago, the
setup complained about a incorrect drive geometry and it suggested also a
more likely geometry. I continued and when the settings were finally written
to disk my system crashed and my hard drive started to making very weird
noises. I ended up sending my hard disk to Maxtor to receive a new one,
because my disk wouldn't boot properly anymore. I think the error message
you get has nothing to do with some kind of maximum hd-capacity freebsd is
able to read (my drive was "only" 60 GB). I've learned that in case with
these kind of weird suggestions the installer makes you'd better think twice
before applying them.

Hope this helps you in some way. I'd like to here if you find out what's
causing the errors the installer makes.

Edsger

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org
[mailto:owner-freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Jef Dodson
Sent: zondag 28 november 2004 4:27
To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org
Subject: drive geometry error

Hello,
I am trying to install FreeBSD 5.3 on a 250GB WD IDE drive. I get a message
saying that the drive
geometry is incorrect and that it is being set to a more likely geometry.
When I try to set the
geometry to the values I read in the BIOS setup, I get the same error
message and the values get
set back to the "more likely" values. Everything seems to go fine until I
try to commit the
installation and then I get a message that the drive could not be written
to. The drive currently
has a linux filesystem on it and I am trying to use the entire drive for the
FreeBSD installation,
i.e., I am not sharing the drive with any other OS. Also, the MB is an Asus
with an AMD Athlon
3200+ processor, if that matters. I've seen lots of posts in various places
about problems
similar to this, but no real solutions. I also tried a to install a small
DOS partition first as
I read somewhere that doing so might help the problem, but it had no effect.
Thanks.

Jef

                
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