Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2003 23:35:49 -0500 From: "Doug Reynolds" <mav@wastegate.net> To: "mike@ascendency.net" <mike@ascendency.net>, "Stephen Hovey" <shovey@buffnet.net> Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Bios not recognizing correct HD size Message-ID: <20030110043538.1105748463@wastegate.net> In-Reply-To: <001001c2b774$a0136470$0302a8c0@mike>
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On Wed, 8 Jan 2003 18:18:18 -0600, Mike Loiterman wrote: > > >On Wednesday, January 08, 2003 5:54 PM Stephen Hovey <mailto:shovey@buffnet.net> wrote: > >>> I think you're right. So should I just define the drive correctlt in >>> fdisk? If so, what would be the proper settings. >> >> >> usually a drive has em on the drive on something - a sticker/label >> sorta thing with head, cyl, sect, etc > >Ok I found out the proper numbers: >39704 cyls, 16 heads, 63 sectors. > >I defined it that way in the BIOS. > >When I get to the fdisk part of the install I did 'G'. I then set the geometry according to those numbers and told it to use the entire drive. When I go to define the slices, though, it still thinks the drive is only 2 gigs. What am I doing wrong? I had the same trouble with a maxtor driver b4, couldn't figure it out. sometimes they come with a jumper enabled so you only see like 2 gig of a 20 gig drive, _even_ if you tell freebsd the whole geometry. i removed the jumper, and all was well --- doug reynolds | the maverick | mav@wastegate.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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