From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Jul 27 9:26:48 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 9FC8837B400 for ; Sat, 27 Jul 2002 09:26:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web21504.mail.yahoo.com (web21504.mail.yahoo.com [66.163.169.15]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4C2C443E3B for ; Sat, 27 Jul 2002 09:26:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from magic_mac_96@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20020727162642.95117.qmail@web21504.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [62.211.141.141] by web21504.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sat, 27 Jul 2002 09:26:42 PDT Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 09:26:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Andrea Monaldi Subject: Re: Cannot initialize disklabel To: David "Siebörger" Cc: stable@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20020727160110.GA17532@rucus.ru.ac.za> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 David, If I had this it should not work well under Linux and W2K too, isn't it? Anyway it's not this problem. It works bad ONLY in FreeBSD. BTW this HD was taken from an Apple G4 and has a little Apple on the top of the drive. Does it mean it has a different firmware? Why Linux and W2K works perfectly with it? Does it make any sense if this drive has been partitioned by OS X previously, doing something strange, and preventing any usage with another BSD OS? Bye Gino --- David Siebörger wrote: > 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 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better http://health.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message