Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 08:42:56 +0200 From: Cyrille Lefevre <cyrille.lefevre@laposte.net> To: Andrea Monaldi <magic_mac_96@yahoo.com> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cannot initialize disklabel Message-ID: <20020727064255.GB7996@gits.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20020726220706.33228.qmail@web21505.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20020726220706.33228.qmail@web21505.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 03:07:06PM -0700, Andrea Monaldi wrote: > I have a 4.6 box and I added a new HD (Maxtor 20GB). > > It is always listed as 2G instead of 20 and I am not > able to initialize the partition or the disk label to > something different to 2 GB. The number of cylinder is > always 4092 although the disk has more than 30000. how old is your machine ? personally, since my BIOS is somewhat old, I have to use `MaxBlast' to deal w/ disks bigger than 2 GB (or 8 GB, don't remember). does your first driver `MaxBlast'ed ? if so, your second drive have to be `MaxBlast'ed too. see the following URL for details and read carefully the installation procedure, etc. http://www.maxtor.com/en/support/downloads/maxblast_plus_ii.htm > The disk in the BIOS is not set to LBA, but it is set > as NORMAL. I have another Maxtor disk that is running > fine. why don't want to use LBA mode ? what are the caracteristics of the other drive ? # grep ata /var/run/dmesg.boot > How can I create a disklabel ? before to create a disklabel, what say fdisk ? # fdisk ad0 # fdisk ad1 Cyrille. -- Cyrille Lefevre mailto:cyrille.lefevre@laposte.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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