From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 25 8:25:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.hal-pc.org (hal-pc.org [204.52.135.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30D5C37B419 for ; Tue, 25 Sep 2001 08:25:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Debug (secure.hal-pc.org [204.52.135.14]) by mail.hal-pc.org (8.9.1/8.9.0) with SMTP id KAA18120 for ; Tue, 25 Sep 2001 10:25:26 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <200109251525.KAA18120@mail.hal-pc.org> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: hundin@hal-pc.org Subject: drive geometry problem Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 15:25:26 GMT X-Mailer: Endymion MailMan Standard Edition v3.0.16 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 i have an 8.4gb WD ide hard drive that i would like to add to my 4.4 system. when the kernel first saw the drive, the bios was under the impression that the drive was ~2gb. This bios has a bug in the ide detection that often assigns random numbers to drive size. Ever since the kernel has reported the drive as eing the size the bios thought it was the first time despite all efforts including repartitioning manually with the correct geometry. the kernel just complains and truncates the disk. i have booted from cd and dd'd zeros across the disk to no avail. is there a way to alter or remove the drive from the kernel's memory? or is there a way to set drive geometry in the boot parameters? i would prefer a solution versus a workaround.. but will take what i can get. thx To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message