On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 06:26:04PM -0400, Bill Davidson wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 17:36:22 -0400 (EDT)
> Net Llama! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Bill Davidson wrote:
> > > On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 16:37:44 -0400 (EDT)
> > > Net Llama! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Bill Davidson wrote:
> > > > > I decided to install FreeBSD and give it a try. My drive
> > > > > geometry is set to 193821 cyls/63 sectors/16 heads. FreeBSD's
> > > > > fdisk says that's
> > > >
> > > > Where are you reading that geometry?
> > >
> > > That's what FreeBSD reports to find. I also get that from linux
> > > fdisk. I just don't understand what will happen if I partition the
> > > drive using a different geometry, or if it even matters.
> >
> > No, i meant the geometry that you think it should be compared to the
> > gemoetry that FreeBSD thinks it should be.
>
> Here are the recommended settings from the western digital website for
> this drive model:
> 16383 cyls/63 sectors/16 heads
>
This is the 8GB limit
16383*16*63*512/2^20=8063MB
all drives lager 8GB are labled with these values.
your disk has a physical capacity of
193821*16*63*512/2^20=95396MB
and FreeBSD uses
12161*255*63*512/2^20=95393MB
you will see this 3MB marked as "unused" in the FreeBSD fdisk.
(512 = bytes per sector and 2^20(=1MB) makes the result appear in MB)
--
Norbert Augenstein
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