Subject: disk geometery in pfdisk and sysinst
To: None <port-i386@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Brian Stark <bstark@siemens-psc.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 01/06/1998 10:28:15
Hello,

Last night I made my first (unsuccessful) attempt at installing NetBSD 
onto my system and I have a question about disk geometery values that I saw.

The C/H/S info for the disk I am installing on is 6136/16/63. The BIOS 
geometery that sysinst detects is 768/128/63. The pfdisk utility reports 
the geometery as 767/128/63.

Has anyone else noticed this discrepancy in the number of cylinders 
reported? 


Brian

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