Subject: Re: Problems installing NetBSD-1.2
To: Matthias Scheler <tron@lyssa.owl.de>
From: Marc Baudoin <Marc.Baudoin@solsoft.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 02/12/1997 11:11:14
Matthias Scheler <tron@lyssa.owl.de> écrit :
> In article <Pine.LNX.3.93.970123020416.19404A-100000@masry.com>,
> Jose Alburquerque <jose@alexandria.net> writes:
> > 1) NetBSD reports a different geometry than that reported by pfdisk
> > under DOS: pfdisk reports 263 255 63 (cyls heads sectors) and NetBSD
> > reports 6703 5 126 (cyls heads sectors) (both have 512 bytes/sector)
>
> Geometry is a virtual thing for SCSI drives. My NCR 53c810 maps the same
> disk as 1016 63 66 under MS-Duke.
Is there some magical formula to find a suitable geometry from the disk
parameters?
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