Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 16:21:05 -0500 From: Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> To: "Aitor San Juan" <asanjuan@bolsabilbao.es>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Installing a second hard disk Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20070313162006.0269b670@mail.computinginnovations.com> In-Reply-To: <1C03BB1950F15F48B9E9654E0EFA42CA049EE7@bb04.bolsabilbao.lo cal> References: <45F57936.3030601@usm.cl> <1C03BB1950F15F48B9E9654E0EFA42CA049EE7@bb04.bolsabilbao.local>
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Check your BIOS and possibly update the BIOS. Also low-level format the=20
disk to ensure there is nothing on the disk causing any issues.
-Derek
At 12:05 PM 3/13/2007, Aitor San Juan wrote:
>Hi List,
>
>I am trying to install a secondary hard disk in a Intel-based PC
>with FreeBSD 5.4
>
>This secondary disk's capacity is 250 Gb. When I enter sysintall
>to try to format it and create a slice, FreeBSD says that the
>geometry of disk is not correct. I, then, type in the values detected
>by the BIOS as suggested, but FreeBSD still complains that those
>are not valid. FreeBSD sees the new disk as a disk of approx. 131 GB.
>
>So my question is: where is the problem? Is it that FreeBSD is not
>able to recognise such a big disk capacity?
>
>Any hint, suggestion, or web link would be highly appreciated.
>
>Thanks in advance
>Aitor.
>
>
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