From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 19 4:43:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mercury.spvi.com (h194.spvi.com [208.150.70.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAA2D37B59C for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 04:43:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from steve@spvi.com) Received: (from steve@localhost) by mercury.spvi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id GAA78826; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 06:43:15 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from steve@spvi.com) Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 06:43:15 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200007191143.GAA78826@mercury.spvi.com> X-Authentication-Warning: mercury.spvi.com: steve set sender to steve@spvi.com using -f From: Steve Spicklemire To: questions@freebsd.org Cc: steve@spvi.com Subject: Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 30G drive.. and 4.0 RELEASE Reply-To: steve@spvi.com Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hmm.. I guess it's my turn to have IDE/Geometry problems. I have a two Maxtor DiamonMax Plus 30G drives I'm attempting to install with 4.0 Release. The installer comes up with incorrect geometry. It insists that the disk geometry is 255/256/63 = 4112640 sectors. I've tried many things: 1) Setting the geometry (G in 4.0 FDISK utility) but no matter what I put in for the disk geometry it only allows me to create slices out if the 4112640 sector portion (about 2GB) of my 30GB disk!) 2) running FDISK/Format in Windows: a) Tried just Win/FDISK b) Tried Win/FDISK + FAT32 format of whole 30GB c) Tried Win/FDISK + FAT format of small DOS partition 3) Pulling out my hair... The manufacturer's web page says: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Model Number Actual Cyls Max Hds Sect Size 53073U6 59,554 16,383 16 63 30.7 GB Maxtor recommends that you use the Auto-Detect feature in the BIOS for hard drive configuration. If your BIOS does not utilize Auto-Detect, Maxtor recommends that you: Manually enter the Maximum Cylinder value for the hard drive if greater than 8.4 GB. Manually enter the Actual Cylinder value for the hard drive if less than 8.4 GB. NOTE: NEVER enter more than 16,383 cylinders in the system BIOS. This may potentially cause data loss. Reference Document Number 63001 for hard drive capacity issues: Click here for information regarding Binary and Decimal calculations. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I've tried having the BIOS AUTO detect, and it seems to find different useful geometries to try... I've tried them all: 16383/16/63 (Manual) 3736/255/63 (Normal) 59554/16/63 LBA When I did the 30Gb FAT32 partition I could *see* the 30GB chunk running 'fdisk' on the command line of the emergency shell when I booted from the 'live cd', but I don't know how to get into the "FDISK" 'gui' from there, and I couldn't seem to manage the partitions using fdisk from the command line. disklabel complained about not being able to find /mnt2/bin/vi or something when I tried to run it.... anyway, any thoughts welcome.. thanks! -steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message