From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu May 25 17:20:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from equity.freerealtime.com (rampagemedia.com [209.67.31.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A118237B716 for ; Thu, 25 May 2000 17:20:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nikolaus.spence@corp.freerealtime.com) Received: from Nik2 (frti-dsl115.freerealtime.com [206.136.195.115]) by equity.freerealtime.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with SMTP id UAA07272 for ; Thu, 25 May 2000 20:19:27 -0400 (EDT) From: "Nikolaus Spence" To: Subject: wrong disk geometry reported Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 17:26:13 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I think I may have come across the first non-FreeBSD-compatible IDE disk drive. The Maxtor 15GB 7200RPM udma/66 drive. p/n st0151500u I am installing it as a second drive and fdisk does not see (or want to beleive) the disk geometry. The actual disk geometry is 29651/16/63 but fdisk sees it as a 2GB drive with 2019/16/63. I set the disk geometry in fdisk and it still won't allow a partition bigger than 2GB. The primary disk in the system is another Maxtor 15GB drive which works fine. Not the same geometry but close. It even comes up as 2019/16/63 in the dmesg. I know the disk isn't bad because DOS/NT/Win98/BIOS sees it's full capacity. When I just set the disk geometry, create no partitions, and save info, I can restart fdisk and get 14xxx/7/14 geometry. These numbers are just strange all together. I figure that an IDE drive is an IDE drive and it's size may vary but they all work so far for me. Nikolaus Spence System Administrator FreeRealTime.com http://www.freerealtime.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message