[RndTbl] FreeBSD 7 install -- help required!

[Kevin McGregor]

The motherboard is an ASUS M2A-VM with both SATA and PATA. I've been 
trying to install to the WD400 (~40 GB) PATA drive (master, CD-ROM is 
the slave). It seems to work fine during the install.

Sean Cody wrote:
>>>
>>> At the beginning of the install, it complained about the drive 
>>> geometry (how 90s). The FreeBSD installer indicates that the 
>>> geometry is set to 77545/16/63, that this is wrong, and it's using 
>>> something better, which turns out to be 4865/255/63. When I go into 
>>> the BIOS, it reports the geometry to be 19158/16/255. FreeBSD 
>>> doesn't let me set the geometry to either of the two other ones!
>>>
>
> This is the real clue.
> How big is the disk?
>
> I've seen this happen before but mostly on VERY large disk arrays (1TB+).
> If sysinstall is complaining about the disk geometry you won't be able 
> to boot from that drive.
> Sysinstall is really old and busted but this is a portent to other 
> issues.
>
> The other reason for this complaint is if the disk controller on your 
> motherboard isn't supported all that well.
> Is this SATA/PATA?
> What is the Motherboard model as well as the drive model numbers?
>