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Date:      Wed, 6 Feb 2002 09:50:14 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Jon Drukman <jsd@cluttered.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 40G disk recognized as 32G - can't override!?
Message-ID:  <20020206095014.A57829@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020206091130.00b35e10@10.10.10.1>; from jsd@cluttered.com on Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 09:20:08AM -0800
References:  <5.1.0.14.2.20020206091130.00b35e10@10.10.10.1>

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On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 09:20:08AM -0800, Jon Drukman wrote:
> i'm helping a friend set up a system.  he put a maxtor diamondmax 40G dri=
ve=20
> in but we can't get it to show up as more than 32G.  i looked on maxtor.c=
om=20
> (the drive model is 54098U8) and it says the cylinder/head/sector count i=
s=20
> 79406/16/63.  using /stand/sysinstall's fdisk option i tried to enter tha=
t=20
> manually, but i get a warning saying

It's probably a BIOS limitation; look for an updated version from the
motherboard vendor.

Kris

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