From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 15 14:56:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA18600 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 15 Aug 1998 14:56:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dirty.research.bell-labs.com (dirty.research.bell-labs.com [204.178.16.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA18591; Sat, 15 Aug 1998 14:56:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from woo@dnrc.bell-labs.com) Received: from boole.dnrc.bell-labs.com ([135.180.161.25]) by dirty; Sat Aug 15 17:54:00 EDT 1998 Received: from fook.dnrc.bell-labs.com (fook.dnrc.bell-labs.com [135.180.161.41]) by boole.dnrc.bell-labs.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA06661; Sat, 15 Aug 1998 17:54:08 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from woo@localhost) by fook.dnrc.bell-labs.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA16344; Sat, 15 Aug 1998 17:53:23 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199808152153.RAA16344@fook.dnrc.bell-labs.com> From: "Thomas Y.C. Woo" Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1998 17:53:23 -0400 X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.6 beta(3) 11/17/96) To: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Problem with 16G IBM DTTA 351680 EIDE drive Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I was trying to install FreeBSD 2.2.6 onto my Dell R400 with a 16G IBM DTTA 351680 drive. Before the install, I successully partitioned the drive into 3 partitions as follows using Partition Magic: Partition 1: FAT about 2G Partition 2: NTFS about 6G Partition 3: unused about 8G In addition, Partition Magic indicates that the geometry of the drive is 2055 cyls, 255 hds, 63 sects. During FreeBSD bootup, it correctly identified the drive, but incorrectly reported that there is 16383 cyls, 16 hds, 63 sects, 512 b/s, and a total of 8063MB in 16514064 sectors. Then in the fdisk stage of install, it showed that there is 1027 cyls, 255 hds, and 63 sects, which is also wrong. In addition, it failed to see partition 3 altogether and did not recognize partition to be NTFS. I am wondering if anybody has gotten FreeBSD to see the whole drive and properly install FreeBSD onto the system. Thanks, Thomas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message