Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 21:51:31 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: "George's Mailing List Account" <gmelists@caffeine.sundial.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fdisk not recognizing Maxtor 11.5gb HD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9811092151020.16987-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9811071243280.420-100000@caffeine.sundial.net>
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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
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