From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 24 19:56:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pilot014.cl.msu.edu (pilot014.cl.msu.edu [35.9.5.114]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AFF337BDCA for ; Wed, 24 May 2000 19:55:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from carls107@msu.edu) Received: from msu.edu (c683804-a.elnsng1.mi.home.com [24.19.88.190]) by pilot014.cl.msu.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id WAA39986 for ; Wed, 24 May 2000 22:55:54 -0400 Message-ID: <392C9681.ADFF1D32@msu.edu> Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 22:57:05 -0400 From: "B. Carlson" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Drive Geometry Problem with BSD4.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm using FreeBSD 4.0 and this is a new installation. I have a Maxtor 91728D8 which is a 17 gig drive. The label on the drive says this: cylinder 16383 head 16 sectors 63 When I boot up with the cd and do the Disk label it says this: cylinder 4096 head 16 sectors 63 Which is now only giving me like maybe a little less than 2 gigs. There is nothing physically wrong with the drive. I boot up in dos and it does the same thing on an Fdisk, tells me there is only about a gig or so of space. I tried fixing it with setting the geometry in BSD, which when I set the geometry to the listing on the outside of the drive it shows up correctly, but I write the information out and reboot and it's back to 4096 cylinders. The Bios is correctly identifying the drive as you can see above in the drive ID, what can I do to get my 16 gigs of space back? B. Carlson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message