From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Jul 27 9: 1:24 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 CE16F37B400 for ; Sat, 27 Jul 2002 09:01:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from server.rucus.ru.ac.za (server.rucus.ru.ac.za [146.231.115.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5E48D43E6A for ; Sat, 27 Jul 2002 09:01:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drs@rucus.ru.ac.za) Received: (qmail 9848 invoked from network); 27 Jul 2002 16:01:10 -0000 Received: from bashir.dsl.ru.ac.za (146.231.113.19) by server.rucus.ru.ac.za with SMTP; 27 Jul 2002 16:01:10 -0000 Received: (qmail 17554 invoked by uid 1001); 27 Jul 2002 16:01:10 -0000 Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 18:01:10 +0200 From: David =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sieb=F6rger?= To: Andrea Monaldi Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cannot initialize disklabel Message-ID: <20020727160110.GA17532@rucus.ru.ac.za> References: <20020726220706.33228.qmail@web21505.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20020726220706.33228.qmail@web21505.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i 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 2002-07-26 (15:07), Andrea Monaldi wrote: > 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. It sounds like your drive has the "Capacity Limitation Jumper" set. All the > 2GB Maxtors I've seen have a jumper which reduces the reported capacity to 4092 cylinders so old BIOSes can detect them. Look up your drive at http://www.maxtor.com/, download the jumper settings, and make sure that that jumper is not set on your drive. -- David Siebörger drs@rucus.ru.ac.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message