Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 13:49:03 +0200 From: Darian Lanx <content@openprojects.net> To: David Taylor <davidt@yadt.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Possible Install bug for the following hardware in FreeBSD Stable (4.3) Message-ID: <200105311149.f4VBn3w08821@silence.sparrows.ici> In-Reply-To: <20010531120113.A26422@gattaca.yadt.co.uk> References: <200105301322.f4UDMlw03356@silence.sparrows.ici> <20010531120113.A26422@gattaca.yadt.co.uk>
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> I had this problem after I enabled the '4092-cylinder limit' jumper on = my > Maxtor drive, because my BIOS (at that point) hung with a drive over 40= 92 > cylinders. I flashed the BIOS afterwards, but forgot about the jumper, > because windows/linux both (somehow) saw the full geometry of the drive= =2E > FreeBSD only saw 2014MB until I removed the jumper. Perhaps your drive= has > a similar jumper? check the manual. Thank you David for the tip. None the less, has this issue witht he drive= r=20 been addressed? The driver should not bother about that, because the Hard= =20 disk reporst the correct size back. On the other, my drive does not have = such=20 a jumper, I just checked, so I am really at my wits ends. Thank you _very_ much for your help though, after about238623946 flames a= nd=20 23862394 stupid replys yours is very nicely detailed...thank you. > > > ad2 29314 MB <IBM DTLA-307030> [5956/16/63 at at-1-master UDMA100 > > 29314 * 1024 * 1024 bytes (i.e. 2914 megabytes) > =3D=3D 30736 * 1000 * 1000 bytes (i.e. 2914 million bytes) > > Its something harddrive manufacturers do to make their drives look > bigger... YEs, I just realized that after doing the right calculation: 3736 cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes=20 I am not a hardware guru ;) Thank you. ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; charset=3D"us-ascii";=20 name=3D"Attachment: 1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description:=20 ---------------------------------------- --=20 si vis pacem, para bellum ---- 'Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love. - Hamelt, Shakespear To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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