From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Feb 11 4: 7:11 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6E9237B401 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 04:07:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from newmail.halenet.com.au (newmail.halenet.com.au [203.55.33.235]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A815D43FA3 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 04:07:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from timbo@halenet.com.au) Received: (from root@localhost) by newmail.halenet.com.au (8.11.6/8.11.6) id h1BCH2R87305 for freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 22:17:02 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from timbo@halenet.com.au) Received: from laptop (customer3-sthe-wireless-mtm.halenet.com.au [61.88.48.23]) by newmail.halenet.com.au (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id h1BCGxo87253 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 22:17:00 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from timbo@halenet.com.au) Message-ID: <013c01c2d1c5$ff225dc0$6500a8c0@halenet.com.au> From: "Tim McCullagh" To: Subject: Problems changing Compact flash geometry on a Ram Star 64 MB CF card Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 22:06:22 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-scanner: scanned by Inflex 1.0.10 - (http://pldaniels.com/inflex/) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi All, Can anyone shed any light on what I have to do to change the disk geometry on a compact flash card I have a Ram Star 64MB CF card which is detected as 960/16/8 when it is in fact 1000/4/32 as per the manufacturers specs. When I change the geometry in the /stand/sysinstall fdisk utility it changes the geometry at the top, but it will not allow the size of the slices to change from what it is detected as. I then write the changes and exit fdisk. But if I go back into the fdisk utility the drive geometry defaults baclk to 960/16/8 I would appreciate any assistance and suggestions on what I am doing wrong Thanks Tim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message