Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>  wrote:
 > > [...]
 > > raid1 disklabel:
 > > 	# /dev/rraid1d:
 > > 	type: RAID
 > > 	disk: raid
 > > 	label: default label
 > > 	flags:
 > > 	bytes/sector: 512
 > > 	sectors/track: 32
 > > 	tracks/cylinder: 1
 > > 	sectors/cylinder: 32
 > > 	cylinders: 2797796
 > 
 > Ok, that's why you triggered the problem: way too much and too small
 > cylinders :)
 > in any case I would recommend you to change this to more same values
 > (I use sectors/track=63 and tracks/cylinder=255 myself for IDE disks).

That may be the case.  that's what the disklabel came up as when I 
did it and checked with Greg and he figured it was fine.  I didn't
know it would tickle an FFS problem.