Hi all,

    Well, last night I set out to install NetBSD-1.0 on an my
(my GF's actually) A3000.  The installation was flawless.  Kudos to 
everyone involved.  So far everything seem to work fine.

    I do have a couple of questions though; just to satisfy my 
curiosity.  In order to make this installation possible, I replaced the 
stock 52MB Quantum with a Seagate 2.1GB ST32430N.  When I partitioned 
it I let HDToolBox read the geometry from the drive and it reported the 
following:
            4016 Cylinders
               9 Heads
             117 Blocks per track
            1045 Blocks per cylinder

    The documentation (if you can call it that) for the drive lists the 
geometry as:

            3992 Cylinders
               9 Head
             116 Sectors per track
            
    This didn't alarm me as I've seen similar things before and disk 
manufacturer's docs are pretty crappy these days anyway.  When NetBSD 
probes the drive though, it reports these values rather than the ones 
reported by HDToolBox (and used to partition the drive).  I've been 
running NetBSD/i386 since the days of 0.8 but I know next to nothing 
about Amigas.  Anyone out there have any idea what the reason for this 
discrepancy might be.  Should I have partitioned with these?

    Also, there are two warnings during boot that may or may not be 
related.  They are as follows:

warning found rdb->secpercyl(1045) != rdb->nsectors(117) * rdb->nheads(9)
warning lp->d_sparespercyl(8) not multiple of lp->d_ntracks(9)

    Do I need to repartition this and start over.  As I've said, 
everything seems to be working fine but I'd rather do this now than start 
installing software packages only to find out that one of my partitions 
is running off the end of the disk or something.

    Oh yeah, one more thing.  What are all the warnings about the bad 
date in the battery backed clock?



                                           Thanks in advance,
                                                Garth.