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Date:      Sun, 20 Jun 1999 17:34:29 -0700 (PDT)
From:      <kip@lyris.com>
To:        Matt White <mwhite@donet.com>
Cc:        "Brandon Hicks-www.gatekeep.net" <freebsd@unreal.gatekeep.net>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: FreeBSD 3.2 install and large IDE drives
Message-ID:  <Pine.SOL.4.05.9906201733010.14514-100000@luna>
In-Reply-To: <000201bebb7d$c01bb520$6402030a@bunnynet.org>

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Tell me where I can find the source and I will take a look at it. 
No promises. That is a lot lower level than I am used to dealing with.
				-Kip 


On Sun, 20 Jun 1999, Matt White wrote:

> Kip;
> 
> My drive has 34960 cylinders.
> 
> I have the source, but I don't know where to even start looking. =\
> 
> Matt
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of kip@lyris.com
> Sent: Sunday, June 20, 1999 8:19 PM
> To: Brandon Hicks-www.gatekeep.net
> Cc: Matt White; freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 3.2 install and large IDE drives
> 
> 
> Check the number of cylinders you have, if it is less than 32,767 then
> there is a good chance that the program is representing #cylinders as a
> short. Somebody who has the source handy should check.
> 
> 			-Kip
> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, 20 Jun 1999, Brandon Hicks-www.gatekeep.net wrote:
> 
> > We just install'd a large IDE drive in our machine, and 3.2 install went
> > fine... What type of Hard Drive is it?
> > Mine was a Western Digital, and took the install just fine. (It was also a
> > 17.2 gig)
> >
> >
> >
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Matt White <mwhite@donet.com>
> > To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
> > Date: Sunday, June 20, 1999 6:56 PM
> > Subject: FreeBSD 3.2 install and large IDE drives
> >
> >
> > >Hello...
> > >
> > >I may have uncovered a problem in the FreeBSD 3.2 install.
> > >
> > >I recently bought a new 18GB IDE drive, and I'm trying to install FreeBSD
> > >3.2 into one of the partitions. When I run the FreeBSD "fdisk" (not sure
> > >what's it actually called) during part of the install, it doesn't detect
> my
> > >drive settings correctly, and thus thinks I'm okay of disk space.
> > >
> > >It's detecting it like this:
> > >
> > > - 255 Heads
> > > - 2193 Cyls
> > > - 63 Sectors
> > >
> > >And in reality is has:
> > >
> > > - 16 Heads
> > > - 34960 Cyls
> > > - 63 Sectors
> > >
> > >
> > >I can't help but notice that 34960 - 2193 is the "magical" number 32767.
> > >
> > >The drive is detected correctly at boot time, which leads me to believe
> the
> > >OS itself is fine, but it's the "fdisk" program that has the problem.
> When
> > >I set the drive geometry manually it takes it, but it still doesn't see
> > that
> > >I have 7GB of unpartitioned space.
> > >
> > >Any ideas?
> > >
> > >Matt
> > >
> > >
> > >
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