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Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 20:36:17 +0000 (GMT)
From: Peter Ulrich Kruppa <root@pukruppa.de>
To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc: Jon Drukman <jsd@cluttered.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: 40G disk recognized as 32G - can't override!?
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On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Kris Kennaway wrote:

> 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 drive
> > in but we can't get it to show up as more than 32G.  i looked on maxtor.com
> > (the drive model is 54098U8) and it says the cylinder/head/sector count is
> > 79406/16/63.  using /stand/sysinstall's fdisk option i tried to enter that
> > manually, but i get a warning saying
>
> It's probably a BIOS limitation; look for an updated version from the
> motherboard vendor.
Probably that's it, but you also should have a look, if you set
the harddisks jumper correctly. Perhaps you accidentally
limited it to 32G.

Uli.


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