From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 7 19:33:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from n5ial.gnt.com (n5ial.gnt.com [204.49.69.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B96737B66C for ; Sat, 7 Oct 2000 19:33:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jim@localhost) by n5ial.gnt.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA02829 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 7 Oct 2000 21:33:50 -0500 Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2000 21:33:50 -0500 From: Jim Graham To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD 4.1.1 refuses to see 30GB hard drive as > 2GB Message-ID: <20001007213350.A2124@n5ial.gnt.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95i X-PGP: see http://www.gnt.net/~n5ial for PGP Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've just attempted to add a Maxtor MXT 53073H4 30.7GB hard drive to my system. Unfortunately, no matter what I do, FreeBSD 4.1.1 insists that it's only 2014 MB. Here's what I've tried..... First, I tried using /stand/sysinstall. No matter what I did, I could not convince it to use more than 2 GB. :-( Then, I used a (shudder) Win98 boot disk and its fdisk---it was quite happy to fdisk and format a 29.9GB dos partition for me. When I tried to mount that using FreeBSD, FreeBSD complained, saying: "ad1s1: slice extends beyond end of disk: truncating from 60018777 to 4124673 sectors". I tried to write to that disk anyways...bad move---FreeBSD went tango uniform (i.e., it locked up hard). I've changed the BIOS settings (which I'm not convinced that any Unix would use anyways), using LBA, LARGE, NORMAL, AUTO, etc....nothing makes any difference. It seems that no matter what I do, FreeBSD insists on seeing this as a 2 GB drive. :-( System details: 650 MHz AMD Athlon on an ASUS K7V Motherboard ad0 (seen quite happily): 19547MB [39714/16/63] at ata0-master using UDMA33 ad1 (fubar): 2014MB [4092/16/63] at ata0-slave using UDMA66 Note that the above info for ad1 is what FreeBSD is seeing at boot, and is *NOT* what's stored in the BIOS config..... BIOS says 4092/255/63 or 1024/255/63, depending on what the settings are (LBA, etc). Forgive my ignorance, but the only time I've ever tried to use a disk this large before was on a Sun Enterprise 3500, which didn't have the limitations of the PC architecture. Has anyone run into this problem before? Can anyone offer any fixes other than starting over by installing FreeBSD from scratch so (hopefully) it will figure out what to do on its own? I saw questions resembling this on the list archives, but if there were answers to those questions, I missed them.... Suggestions, comments, and even RTFMs (with a pointer to the FM that I've missed, please), most welcome. Thanks, --jim -- 73 DE N5IAL (/4) | "There is no reason anyone would want jim@n5ial.gnt.net | a computer in their home." ICBM / Hurricane: | --Ken Olsen, DEC founder, 1977 30.39735N 86.60439W | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message