[OT] Drive geometry question

[Net Llama!]

On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Bill Davidson wrote:
> I decided to install FreeBSD and give it a try. My drive geometry is set
> to 193821 cyls/63 sectors/16 heads. FreeBSD's fdisk says that's

Where are you reading that geometry?

> incorrect and wants to use 12161 cyls/63 sectors/ 255 heads. Is it safe
> to go ahead and create a FreeBSD partition with this drive geometry? I
> would prefer not to hose everything installing this ;)

Could be that FreeBSD is doing some kind of LBA32 equivalent.

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