Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 17:31:43 -0800 From: John Merryweather Cooper <john_m_cooper@yahoo.com> To: "Kevin J. Kelly" <kjkelly@kjkelly.com> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem recognizing size of WD 120GB EIDE Disk Message-ID: <20011231173143.B53751@johncoop.MSHOME> In-Reply-To: <LOBBJJLFCNECDKPNPFBPEEHIGEAA.kjkelly@kjkelly.com>; from kjkelly@kjkelly.com on Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 17:21:47 -0800 References: <LOBBJJLFCNECDKPNPFBPEEHIGEAA.kjkelly@kjkelly.com>
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On 2001.12.31 17:21 Kevin J. Kelly wrote:
>
> 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.
>
I think the number of cylinders is getting truncated or suffering a
wrap-around since my 40G Maxtor gives 79408/16/63. I would expect on a
120G drive to see about 3x that or roughly 240000/16/63.
> Does anyone have any advice on what I can try to get FreeBSD to
> realize the
> full size of the disk?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kevin
>
>
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