Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 21:51:14 -0500 From: Paul <hundin@hal-pc.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie> Subject: Re: drive geometry problem Message-ID: <20010926215114.34b1bb2f.hundin@hal-pc.org> In-Reply-To: <200109270111.aa75066@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> References: <200109251525.KAA18120@mail.hal-pc.org> <200109270111.aa75066@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>
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On Thu, 27 Sep 2001 01:11:56 +0100 Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie> wrote: > In message <200109251525.KAA18120@mail.hal-pc.org>, hundin@hal-pc.org writes: > >e > >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 > > Some IDE hard disks have a jumper that forces the drive to behave > as a 2Gb disk. Could you have enabled such a jumper by accident? > > Ian > the only jumpers i have set are those needed to set the disk as primary slave. besides.. most of the time the bios sees it at the correct size anyway. Paul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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