Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 19:04:31 -0500 (CDT) From: Chris <chrisj@outcast.media-net.net> To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wd driver Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980916185536.2774B-100000@outcast.media-net.net> In-Reply-To: <199809162351.QAA00790@dingo.cdrom.com>
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The bios on the system (MB is an abit) is able to detect the drive with the correct parameters and also registers the size correctly (7752cyl 16heads 63 spt 4001 megs). Within the fbsd fdisk editor it reads the incorrect info also. could it be a problem possible with the "special" jumper settings? On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, Mike Smith wrote: > > im tring to install a new 4 gig Western Digital Caviar 34000 IDE drive > > into a -stable workstation that we have here. Where i am running into > > problems is getting the wd driver to detect the correct drive paramiters > > and drive size. Currantly it will only detect about 2041 megs of the > > drive. I've tried placing a small dos partion onto the drive and then > > letting the WD driver have at it again as recomeneded in the Complete > > FreeBSD with no luck. any thoughts? > > The wd driver will use the geometry reported by the drive. Take the > numbers that it prints when it probes the drive and calculate the size > of the drive from there. You may have a 2G drive, or your BIOS may be > doing something funny. You should have no trouble whatsoever with a 4G > disk. > > -- > \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith > \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au > \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org > \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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