Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 00:13:06 -0400 From: Christopher Michaels - SSG <ChrisMic@sbservices.com> To: "'questions@FreeBSD.org'" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Geometry troubles with new harddrive. Message-ID: <29C83908FF4FD2118D2C00A0C90FCB44087392@site2s1>
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Ok Although no one else had a chance to respoond to this yet, I'd just like to let you know it was resolved. It part, thanks to the help of #FreeBSD on undernet. I was able to get the drive recognized properly when I placed it on the primary controller (was secondary,master) and jumpered it to be a standalone drive (it had a cdrom slaved to it). All appears to be working now. Thanks anyway, Chris > -----Original Message----- > From: Christopher J. Michaels [SMTP:cjm2@earthling.net] > Sent: Saturday, October 24, 1998 3:01 PM > To: 'jericho' > Cc: 'questions@FreeBSD.org' > Subject: RE: Geometry troubles with new harddrive. > > I don't want it to work with FAT at all. I want it to be 100% FreeBSD. > And I would like to know how to get FreeBSD to recognize the full size of > > the drive. The reason I mentioned the FAT32 biz at all is because I > didn't > know if maybe Windoze did something to the drive that BSD doesn't like. > > Thanks anyway tho, > Chris > > -----Original Message----- > From: jericho [SMTP:jerichow@commons.aim-smart.com] > Sent: Saturday, October 24, 1998 2:30 PM > To: Christopher J. Michaels > Subject: Re: Geometry troubles with new harddrive. > > did u try reformatting it with fat16- from the documentation ive read i > didnt think freebsd worked with fat32- just the standard dos fat16- if u > need the data on the drive try to move it elsewhere for later retrieval > after reformatting or you can use partition magic to change it to fat16 > without data loss > > -----Original Message----- > From: Christopher J. Michaels <cjm2@earthling.net> > To: 'questions@FreeBSD.org' <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> > Date: Saturday, October 24, 1998 02:25 PM > Subject: Geometry troubles with new harddrive. > > > >Hello, > > I don't know if my original question got through but I have more > >information this time around so I'm going to ask again. :) > > > >I installed a harddrive into my FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE machine. The > >harddrive was previously used in a Windows 95 machine, partitions > entirely > >in FAT32. > > > >The parameters that the BIOS sees are 13328/15/63 for a size of 6449 MB. > >FreeBSD sees 4092/15/63 (3866940 sectors) for a size of 1888 MB. > > > >I have tried all 3 modes for the BIOS to report the drive (LBA, LARGE, & > >NORMAL). The numbers above are reported by NORMAL. > > > >I have tried editing the geomerty in /stand/sysintall and by using > command > >line fdisk. Nothing seems to hold. > > > >I know this drive works. I've had it almost a year and never had trouble > >with it on the windows machine. What else can I do to get FreeBSD to > >report the proper size of this drive so I can move on to using it? > > > >-Chris > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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