I noticed a similar thing with a similar HD. I went with the FreeBSD suggestion and it resulted in a corrupted HD. I would just go with the Disk/BIOS settings. I did that before for other disks and never had issues then.

----- Original Message ----- From: "J. Nyhuis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 7:38 PM
Subject: Q: ATA HDD installer issue


Greetings,

I am installing FreeBSD 5.4 on a system using a Seagate Barracuda (Model ST380011A) 80GB drive. This drive has 38297 cylinders, 16 heads, and 255 sectors (this is identified both on a label on the drive and by the BIOS IDE auto-detect). The FreeBSD installer make it to the disk partitioning screen, and produces an error stating that my drive parameters are wrong, and that I should manually correct them. When I enter the parameters 38297/16/255 (cylinders/heads/sectors), it tells me that the parameters are wrong and refuses to take my input. The hardware manual states that the drive parameters for fdisk should be what is reported in the BIOS (which they are, in this case).

 Ideas?

 Thanks,

John H. Nyhuis
Sr. Computer Specialist
Dept. of Pediatrics
HS RR349B, Box 356320
University of Washington
Desk: (206)-685-3884
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