From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 9 21:51:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA14696 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 21:51:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA14690 for ; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 21:51:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA21783; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 21:51:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 21:51:31 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White To: "George's Mailing List Account" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fdisk not recognizing Maxtor 11.5gb HD In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 7 Nov 1998, George's Mailing List Account wrote: > Hey Guys... > > I am trying to install a Maxtor 11.5Gb EIDE Hard Drive as wd1 in my > FreeBSD system, which acts as samba server and gateway for my other > computers here. > > I am running 2.2.7R. > > My problem is, fdisk (either through /stand/sysinstall or through fdisk > itself) is not recognizing the 11.5Gb drive (actually it's 10.89gb > formatted). Even by manually setting the drive geometry in fdisk to 22332 > cyl, 16 hds, 63 sectors, and write out the partition table, disk label > only see 8063Mb of available disk space. This is normal, 2.2.7 does not support IDE drives >8GB. Upgrade to -stable. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message