From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Sep 16 20:24:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA26462 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 20:24:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from SchematiX.NET (schematix.net [24.234.31.158]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA26348 for ; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 20:24:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scott@SchematiX.NET) Received: from localhost (scott@localhost) by SchematiX.NET (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA00767; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 20:19:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scott@SchematiX.NET) Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 20:19:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Scott To: Mike Smith cc: Chris , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wd driver In-Reply-To: <199809162351.QAA00790@dingo.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, Mike Smith wrote: I'm curious...what is the procedure if you have a hard drive larger than what your bios supports? I have a 3GB on a 430HX chipset that only detects 2GB of it and i wanted to install FreeBSD on it, but i can't do it. But the BIOS supports up to an 8.4GB HD. > > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message