From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 20 1:20: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EA3637B401 for ; Fri, 20 Dec 2002 01:20:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailhost.highway.co.uk (mailhost.highway.co.uk [194.200.10.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40F6A43EE5 for ; Fri, 20 Dec 2002 01:20:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from davidg@pipex.net) Received: from [172.31.20.182] (172.31.20.182 [172.31.20.182]) by mailhost.highway.co.uk with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2650.21) id YVVAVNJY; Fri, 20 Dec 2002 09:19:13 -0000 Subject: FIXED: fdisk and HD's larger than 2GB From: David Gethings To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1040375699.28596.79.camel@trigger.highway.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.0 Date: 20 Dec 2002 09:14:59 +0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Would you believe it was a jumper on the HD that was causing all the problems. The HD is setup as the primary IDE master, but the jumper settings on the HD were not configured as such. Once the correct jumper settings were in place fdisk behaved normally. I'd like to add that I bought the PC "as is" from a friend, and so figured this kind of thing would already have been sorted. I won't make that kind of assumption again. So the good news is that I now have more than 2G to play with. The bad news is that seeing as I installed an OS while the jumpers were not configured correctly, this seems to have corrupted sections of the disk. So be warned: make sure your HD jumper settings are correct for the HD's position! Regards Dg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message