From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 17 19:24:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from penkovsky.complexsys.net (cn863530-a.newcas1.de.home.com [24.40.15.231]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8D9237B4F9 for ; Tue, 17 Oct 2000 19:24:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: by penkovsky.complexsys.net (Postfix, from userid 500) id 020FA2BD58; Tue, 17 Oct 2000 18:26:13 -0400 (EDT) Received: from penkovsky (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by penkovsky.complexsys.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 000EE23DC7 for ; Tue, 17 Oct 2000 18:26:13 -0400 (EDT) From: "Philip R. Moyer" Reply-To: prm@complexsys.net To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: 4.1.1 and 30 Gig disk, still no dice Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 18:26:08 -0400 Message-Id: <20001017222613.020FA2BD58@penkovsky.complexsys.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I think I might be out of luck running 4.1.1 on my system. I have an 8 Gig IDE disk as the primary master, and a 30 Gig Western Digital as the primary slave. The system is running RedHat 7.0 right now. When the 4.1.1 install disk boots up, it reads the second drive as a 2.0 Gig drive (4094/16/63). I tried manually resetting the drive geometry in fdisk, but as soon as I create a slice, the geometry entry at the top of the screen reverts to a 2 Gig disk, with geometry 255/255/63 (or perhaps it's 259/255/63, but this is close). I read in one of the on-line FAQs that recomputing the drive geometry may work better, so I used the formula and came up with 3739/255/63. When I tried that, I had the same results (drive geometry reverts back to 2 Gig). When I first installed RedHat on this system, I had to remove the drive entry from the BIOS to make RH ignore the default geometry. This worked fine. I twiddled the various settings for this drive, in the BIOS, and had no better luck. The fdisk behavior remained unchanged. The settings I tried were none, auto, and manual (with LBA both enabled and disabled). Finally, another of the online FAQs suggested recreating the partition table with a DOS entry. Under RH, then, I created a 20 Meg DOS partition. Still no luck. Obviously, I'm doing something stupid, because all the mail I've gotten says, to paraphrase, "yep, works like a charm." :-| Has anyone run across similar problems? How did you solve them? Cheers, Phil To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message