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Date:      Thu, 31 May 2001 20:25:30 +0100
From:      David Taylor <davidt@yadt.co.uk>
To:        bio@gmx.net
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Possible Install bug for the following hardware in FreeBSD Stable (4.3)
Message-ID:  <20010531202530.B22973@gattaca.yadt.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <200105311149.f4VBn3w08821@silence.sparrows.ici>; from content@openprojects.net on Thu, May 31, 2001 at 13:49:03 %2B0200
References:  <200105301322.f4UDMlw03356@silence.sparrows.ici> <20010531120113.A26422@gattaca.yadt.co.uk> <200105311149.f4VBn3w08821@silence.sparrows.ici>

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On Thu, 31 May 2001, Darian Lanx wrote:
>=20
> > 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.
> > 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.
>=20

I'm not a hardware guru either, and I know very little about the internals
of FreeBSD's IDE drivers, so I'm not sure how windows/linux are detecting
the correct geometry, and FreeBSD isn't...

Unfortunately, if your drive doesn't have a jumper like that, I've no idea
what could be wrong...

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David Taylor
davidt@yadt.co.uk

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