From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 29 21:56:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from orbimus.dhs.org (cg52970-c.adubn1.nj.home.com [65.9.202.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D141A37B423 for ; Tue, 29 May 2001 21:56:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from klined@orbimus.dhs.org) Received: from localhost (klined@localhost) by orbimus.dhs.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f4U4u5J30749; Wed, 30 May 2001 00:56:05 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from klined@orbimus.dhs.org) Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 00:56:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Kyle Rollin To: K Karthik Cc: Jason Oakley , Subject: Re: Large Hard Drive Trouble In-Reply-To: <01053012292600.06950@svr.mgsb.domain> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Brent's email brings up another valid point... Formatted versus unformatted capacity. Vince, if you want to use the full 45GB, I'd say go out and buy a Promise UltraATA/66 controller.. they're roughly $30/US, and will report the correct size of the entire HD to FreeBSD.. On Wed, 30 May 2001, K Karthik wrote: > I have QUANTUM FIREBALLP AS40.0 - 40GB HDD, FreeBSD recognized only 38GB. > I tried to format with other OSes like MS-Windows NT 4.0 which recognized > only 35GB (NTFS). > > Right now, I am using the HDD with FreeBSD , the 2GB is hiding somehere. > > Kernel recognized: > ad1: 38172MB [77557/16/63] at ata0-slave UDMA33 > > > > From: Jason Oakley > > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > Subject: Re: Large Hard Drive Trouble > > Date: 30/05/2001 12:13:03 PM > > > > 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 [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 > > ]:> > > ]:> > > ]:> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > ]:> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > ]:> > > ]: > > ]: > > ]:To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > ]:with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > ]: > > > > > > ---------------------------- > > You should be Banging Rocks! > > http://www.bangrocks.com > > _ > > .oO(_)Oo. > > > > I'd far rather be happy > > than right, any day. > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > -------- End of forwarded message -------- > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message