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Date:      Wed, 30 May 2001 14:13:03 +1000 (EST)
From:      Jason Oakley <waulok@bangrocks.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Large Hard Drive Trouble
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0105301412040.55385-100000@snsonline.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0105300003290.30676-100000@orbimus.dhs.org>
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The 40Gb HDD I bought two weeks ago works fine. BIOS said it was 8Gb, but
when I installed FBSD, it said the drive had 38Gb free on one of the
partitions.


On Wed, 30 May 2001, Kyle Rollin wrote:

]:Vince:
]:
]:If the BIOS doesn't see the entire size of the drive, then neither will
]:FreeBSD.
]:
]:Unless I'm wrong, you're stuck with 32GB...
]:
]:-Kyle Rollin
]:klined@orbimus.dhs.org
]:
]:On Tue, 29 May 2001, Vince Valenti wrote:
]:
]:> Hello everybody,
]:>
]:> I just purchased a Maxtor 45GB hard drive to stick in one of my FreeBSD
]:> boxes.  It is an older motherboard, an Abit TX5 with the latest BIOS
]:> revision.  When I originally installed the drive, the computer would hang
]:> when trying to detect the hard drive.  I then installed the Cylinder
]:> Limitation Jumper and it booted fine, but the BIOS only detects the drive
]:> as a 32GB drive.  I disabled the drive in the BIOS, and booted to FreeBSD.
]:> This is what gets reported by the kernel:
]:>
]:> ad2: 32253MB <Maxtor 54610H6> [65531/16/63] at ata1-master UDMA33
]:>
]:> What I'm wondering is, is it possible to use the entire capacity of the
]:> drive, or am I limited to 32GB?  If it is possible, what do I need to do?
]:>
]:> I really appreciate any help.
]:>
]:> Thanks,
]:>
]:> --
]:> Vince Valenti
]:>
]:>
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