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Date:      Tue, 3 Dec 2002 09:33:35 -0700
From:      Christopher Rosado <rbg@gayteenresource.org>
To:        "Carlos Ross" <carlos_ross@hotmail.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Large disk support with Unix
Message-ID:  <20021203093335.7c4671ff.rbg@gayteenresource.org>
In-Reply-To: <F42VwnUomkDbhSRtj1D00032c07@hotmail.com>
References:  <F42VwnUomkDbhSRtj1D00032c07@hotmail.com>

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On Tue, 03 Dec 2002 11:29:27 -0500
"Carlos Ross" <carlos_ross@hotmail.com> wrote:

CR> I'm having problems getting FDISK to use my 8.4GB hard disk; it
CR> only sees 2GB of space. My BIOS supports large disks, and it
CR> reports geometry c = 4092, H = 16, S= 63 with 16406208 total sectors.
CR> FDISK reports the same geometry, but only one quarter of the total
CR> sectors.
CR> Prior to this, I installed Windows 2000, and QNX, and neither one
CR> of those OS's had this problem.
CR> I need to resolve this problem soon. Please advice.

Check the jumper settings on the hard drive.

-- 
Christopher Rosado

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