From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 5 0:28:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from jfh00.fernuni-hagen.de (jfh00.fernuni-hagen.de [132.176.7.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3996C15880 for ; Fri, 5 Nov 1999 00:28:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jfh@jfh00.fernuni-hagen.de) Received: (from jfh@localhost) by jfh00.fernuni-hagen.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA14884; Fri, 5 Nov 1999 09:27:44 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from jfh) To: Roelof Osinga Cc: Alejandro Ramirez , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: disk cylinder count wrong References: <382054E6.67A72B4D@nisser.com> <034901bf2620$68d59520$bdc3fea9@megared.net.mx> <3821AFAF.E1B6A92D@nisser.com> From: Fritz Heinrichmeyer Date: 05 Nov 1999 09:27:44 +0100 In-Reply-To: Roelof Osinga's message of "Thu, 04 Nov 1999 17:09:19 +0100" Message-ID: Lines: 15 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070097 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.97) XEmacs/21.2 (Shinjuku) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG i recently struggled at home with a 15 GB HD and realized to late that all is answered in the FAQ!! file:/usr/share/doc/FAQ/FAQ39.html#39: there is written: ... the simplest way around this is usually to create a small DOS partition on the disk. The correct geometry should then be detected .... -- Fritz Heinrichmeyer mailto:fritz.heinrichmeyer@fernuni-hagen.de FernUniversitaet Hagen, LG ES, 58084 Hagen (Germany) tel:+49 2331/987-1166 fax:987-355 http://ES-i2.fernuni-hagen.de/~jfh To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message