Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 19:21:47 -0600 From: "Kevin J. Kelly" <kjkelly@kjkelly.com> To: <freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org> Subject: Problem recognizing size of WD 120GB EIDE Disk Message-ID: <LOBBJJLFCNECDKPNPFBPEEHIGEAA.kjkelly@kjkelly.com>
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I am attempting to configure a new Western Digital Caviar 120GB EIDE (WD1200JB) drive on my FreeBSD system. My BIOS was fairly old, so I upgraded it to the most recent version which supports large hard drives. The BIOS will now recognize the disk properly on boot up. However, I am having difficult in getting the OS to see all of the drive. The sysinstall fdisk utility sees the geometry as 4092 cyls, 16 heads, & 63 sectors = 4124736 sectors == 2014 mb. Selecting the option to utilize the entire drive results in a partition of this size. Does anyone have any advice on what I can try to get FreeBSD to realize the full size of the disk? Thanks, Kevin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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