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 complains of an invalid > disk upon booting it. > > > > Actually, in AHCI mode the bios screen doesn't report any information > on drive geometry, so all bets appear to be off in giving sysinstall > the correct figures.
I would think anything this modern would totally ignore CHS and hence any warnings about bogus geometry are in themselves totally bogus. ie just ignore sysinstalls bleatings. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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