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Date:      Tue, 29 May 2001 21:38:01 +0200
From:      Darian Lanx <content@openprojects.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   ASUS CUSL2 + 4.3 Install HD size not recognized.
Message-ID:  <200105291931.f4TJVaw30477@silence.sparrows.ici>

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Hello everybody,
I have tried to find information on this issue, both online, in IRC and o=
n=20
mailing list archives, but nothing seems to turn up as useful

I have an ASUS CUSL2
The first HD is a Maxtor 53073U6 wth 30735MB
The current partition table on it looks like  this:
Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 3736 cylinders
Units =3D cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
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   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *         1       261   2096451    6  FAT16
/dev/hda2           262      3736  27912937+   f  Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5           262      1407   9205213+   b  Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda6          1408      2682  10241406    b  Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda7          2683      3736   8466223+   8  AIX   <--- This shoudl =
be=20
used by BSD later I marked it as AIC partition in Linux so i woudl easily=
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recognize it in the BSD notation

The BIOS recognizes the drive as 30735, it automatically set all values, =
uses=20
LBA, sets PIO MODE4 and ATA mode5

I am booting the install floppies for BSD RELEASE 4.3
everything boots up fine, when the kernel laods I think I see something a=
bout=20
loading i815 ATA onboard driver blah blah... not sure though.

After all has loaded I try to parition drive ad0
but when I open it with the fdisk like dialog all I see is
ad0s0 with a total size of 2008MB
on the second console the following text is printed:
ad0s0 partition entry too long : truncating
and below
ad0s2 slice starts beyond end of the disk: rejecting it.

The drive geometry is recognized as being 255/255/63
when the bios recognizes it to be 1024/255/63 using the LBA mapping that=20
equals 255 heads, 63 sectors, 3736 cylinders

I can turn off any enhaced stuff, whatever I do, the installer doe snot s=
ee=20
my full 30GB.

Please advise me, I really would love to try BSD and I need it to port so=
me=20
code over from linux.

Thank you, thank you.

-d
--=20
si vis pacem, para bellum
----
'Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move;
 Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.
- Hamelt, Shakespear

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