Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 17:26:13 -0700 From: "Nikolaus Spence" <nikolaus.spence@corp.freerealtime.com> To: <freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org> Subject: wrong disk geometry reported Message-ID: <NEBBKBPLELHGEGNFEOKBKEKPCAAA.nikolaus.spence@corp.freerealtime.com>
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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
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