From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 29 12:32: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from silence.sparrows.ici (chello212186015038.11.univie.teleweb.at [212.186.15.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC3C437B42C for ; Tue, 29 May 2001 12:31:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from content@openprojects.net) Received: from there (Q.sparrow.ici [192.168.0.99]) by silence.sparrows.ici (8.11.2/8.11.2/SuSE Linux 8.11.1-0.5) with SMTP id f4TJVaw30477 for ; Tue, 29 May 2001 21:31:42 +0200 Message-Id: <200105291931.f4TJVaw30477@silence.sparrows.ici> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Darian Lanx Reply-To: bio@gmx.net Organization: OPN To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: ASUS CUSL2 + 4.3 Install HD size not recognized. Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 21:38:01 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2.2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello everybody, I have tried to find information on this issue, both online, in IRC and o= n=20 mailing list archives, but nothing seems to turn up as useful I have an ASUS CUSL2 The first HD is a Maxtor 53073U6 wth 30735MB The current partition table on it looks like this: Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 3736 cylinders Units =3D cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes =20 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 261 2096451 6 FAT16 /dev/hda2 262 3736 27912937+ f Win95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hda5 262 1407 9205213+ b Win95 FAT32 /dev/hda6 1408 2682 10241406 b Win95 FAT32 /dev/hda7 2683 3736 8466223+ 8 AIX <--- This shoudl = be=20 used by BSD later I marked it as AIC partition in Linux so i woudl easily= =20 recognize it in the BSD notation The BIOS recognizes the drive as 30735, it automatically set all values, = uses=20 LBA, sets PIO MODE4 and ATA mode5 I am booting the install floppies for BSD RELEASE 4.3 everything boots up fine, when the kernel laods I think I see something a= bout=20 loading i815 ATA onboard driver blah blah... not sure though. After all has loaded I try to parition drive ad0 but when I open it with the fdisk like dialog all I see is ad0s0 with a total size of 2008MB on the second console the following text is printed: ad0s0 partition entry too long : truncating and below ad0s2 slice starts beyond end of the disk: rejecting it. The drive geometry is recognized as being 255/255/63 when the bios recognizes it to be 1024/255/63 using the LBA mapping that=20 equals 255 heads, 63 sectors, 3736 cylinders I can turn off any enhaced stuff, whatever I do, the installer doe snot s= ee=20 my full 30GB. Please advise me, I really would love to try BSD and I need it to port so= me=20 code over from linux. Thank you, thank you. -d --=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-questions" in the body of the message