From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Dec 31 17:31:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.bmi.net (smtp.bmi.net [204.57.191.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82FE137B422 for ; Mon, 31 Dec 2001 17:31:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from johncoop.MSHOME (drumheller-router.bmi.net [206.63.201.3] (may be forged)) by smtp.bmi.net (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA09089; Mon, 31 Dec 2001 17:31:45 -0800 Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 17:31:43 -0800 From: John Merryweather Cooper To: "Kevin J. Kelly" Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem recognizing size of WD 120GB EIDE Disk Message-ID: <20011231173143.B53751@johncoop.MSHOME> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: ; from kjkelly@kjkelly.com on Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 17:21:47 -0800 X-Mailer: Balsa 1.3.0 Lines: 44 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 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 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message > -- _ | |V| / ' || MacroHard -- \ \_| | | \_, || the perfection of form over | ----------------------------------|| substance, marketing over | Web: http://www.borgsdemons.com || performance, and greed over | AIM: johnmcooper || design . . . | =====================================================================/ Public Key: http://www.borgsdemons.com/Personal/pgpkey.asc | =====================================================================\ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message