From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jul 26 23:43:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1166E37B400 for ; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 23:43:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.noos.fr (descartes.noos.net [212.198.2.74]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4104543E3B for ; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 23:43:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cyrille.lefevre@laposte.net) Received: (qmail 57669132 invoked by uid 0); 27 Jul 2002 06:43:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO gits.gits.dyndns.org) ([212.198.229.153]) (envelope-sender ) by 212.198.2.74 (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 27 Jul 2002 06:43:08 -0000 Received: from gits.gits.fr.invalid (ugj3jqr9454cwfoi@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gits.gits.dyndns.org (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g6R6h75P016663 for ; Sat, 27 Jul 2002 08:43:07 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from cyrille.lefevre@laposte.net) Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 08:42:56 +0200 To: Andrea Monaldi Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cannot initialize disklabel Message-ID: <20020727064255.GB7996@gits.dyndns.org> References: <20020726220706.33228.qmail@web21505.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020726220706.33228.qmail@web21505.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.99i Organization: ACME X-Face: V|+c;4!|B?E%BE^{E6);aI.[< X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.58 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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