Re: AHCI and correct drive geometry?

2008-04-25 Thread John Baldwin
On Wednesday 16 April 2008 09:33:19 am Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Wed, 16 Apr 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: ie just ignore sysinstalls bleatings. Which begs the question -- why are we still spitting that warning out during the fdisk portion of sysinstall? I guess the problem is that it

Re: AHCI and correct drive geometry?

2008-04-19 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Thu, 17 Apr 2008, Josef Karthauser wrote: I guess the problem is that it is impossible to know what systems care about geometry and those that don't. Granted. Perhaps we just need to tone it down a bit then. On my system the warning appears when you first enter the fdisk editor, and

RE: AHCI and correct drive geometry?

2008-04-17 Thread Josef Karthauser
-Original Message- From: Daniel O'Connor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 16 April 2008 14:33 To: Jeremy Chadwick Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Josef Karthauser Subject: Re: AHCI and correct drive geometry? On Wed, 16 Apr 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: ie just

Re: AHCI and correct drive geometry?

2008-04-16 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 08:12:26AM +0100, 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

RE: AHCI and correct drive geometry?

2008-04-16 Thread Josef Karthauser
-Original Message- From: Jeremy Chadwick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 16 April 2008 09:15 To: Josef Karthauser Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: AHCI and correct drive geometry? On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 08:12:26AM +0100, Josef Karthauser wrote: So what's the word on AHCI

Re: AHCI and correct drive geometry?

2008-04-16 Thread 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

Re: AHCI and correct drive geometry?

2008-04-16 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 09:46:15PM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote: 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

Re: AHCI and correct drive geometry?

2008-04-16 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Wed, 16 Apr 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: ie just ignore sysinstalls bleatings. Which begs the question -- why are we still spitting that warning out during the fdisk portion of sysinstall? I guess the problem is that it is impossible to know what systems care about geometry and those