[Soekris] Installing FreeBSD 6.1 on a 2.5" Hitachi for Soekris

[Petri Ojala]

I know this isn't exactly for this list but perhaps someone has faced  
this problem as well..

I'm trying to get FreeBSD 6.1 installed for the soekris-box  
(net4801).  I was planning to install the FreeBSD on another PC on  
the disk, compile a new kernel and swap the disk to the Soekris box  
all installed.

On the PC I tried to do this (Mac-guy, not many spare PC's laying  
around ;-) FreeBSD install complains about the disk geometry and the  
partitioning / bootstrap install / newfs fails with error 36.  First  
I thought it was the disk but SeaTools verifies the disk quite fine  
and WinXP install is smoothless.  This was a 80G Hitachi 2.5" drive.   
Then I tried with another 40G Hitachi 2.5" drive, the same problem.   
Using a random 3.5" disk the install worked smoothly.  Using the  
correct cyl/head/... parameters didn't work.

Is there something special one should be aware of when using those  
2.5" drives?

Petri