drive geometry error

[Jef Dodson]

So, I swapped out the WD 250 GB drive for a Maxtor 10GB drive from an old iMac and the
installation worked.  So, the problem I was having was definitely related to the hard drive, but I
don't know exactly what the problem was.  Is there a general problem with using large drives with
BSD?  Is there something special that I need to do in order to use a 250GB drive?  Like I said
before, the drive works fine under Debian so I know the drive itself is OK.  Thanks.

Jef

--- Adam Fabian <afabian at austin.rr.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 02:42:57AM -0800, Jef Dodson wrote:
> > I first tried leaving the values alone and it produced the
> > error.  I then tried changing the values to the values that
> > my BIOS reported but that gave the same error.  Incidentally,
> > the values that the installer is setting are the same values
> > that I see if I run fdisk and print the partition table for and
> > identical (but different) drive that has a Linux installation.
> 
> I'm still hazy on this.  On the attempt where FreeBSD said that the
> reported geometry was unlikely, and it was using a more likely
> geometry, and you accepted FreeBSD's more likely geometry (if, in
> fact, you made such an attempt; this is where I'm hazy), when you
> tried to commit to the install, what error message did you get?
> 
> -- 
> Adam Fabian (afabian at austin.rr.com)
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