From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Dec 31 17:21:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mail.san.yahoo.com (mail.san.yahoo.com [209.132.1.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30B8637B41F for ; Mon, 31 Dec 2001 17:21:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from ransom (205.238.131.38) by mail.san.yahoo.com (5.5.054.2) id 3C2A4F4F0007132B for freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org; Mon, 31 Dec 2001 17:21:48 -0800 From: "Kevin J. Kelly" To: Subject: Problem recognizing size of WD 120GB EIDE Disk Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 19:21:47 -0600 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal 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 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