From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 23 12:35: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pop.hccnet.nl (pop.hccnet.nl [193.172.127.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0B1137B423 for ; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 12:34:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from parmenides.utp.net by pop.hccnet.nl via uds48-115.dial.hccnet.nl [193.173.115.48] with ESMTP id VAA16794 (8.8.5/1.13); Wed, 23 Aug 2000 21:34:57 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (janko@localhost) by parmenides.utp.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA01323; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 19:05:21 GMT (envelope-from janko@parmenides.utp.net) Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 19:05:20 +0000 (GMT) From: Janko van Roosmalen To: Cory.Wiggins@nokia.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing Hard Drive 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 Wed, 23 Aug 2000 Cory.Wiggins@nokia.com wrote: > I'm having problems installing a Maxtor 96147U8 60Gig hard drive on FreeBSD > 3.4 No matter what I try to do I can't change the geometry of the drive to > match it specs. Any idea's how this can be done. Some time ago I installed a 13 GB on an old 486. I did not use LBA disk translation, just normal CHS. The BIOS thought it had a 504 MB disk, but FreeBSD 3.2 recognized the right disk geometry. You could play around with those BIOS settings and see how the disks probing routines of the kernel on the install floppies think about the geometry. Janko To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message