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!? Message-ID: <20020206203218.H1819-100000@pukruppa.de> In-Reply-To: <20020206095014.A57829@xor.obsecurity.org>
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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. *-----------------------------------* * Peter Ulrich Kruppa * * - Wuppertal - * * Germany * *-----------------------------------* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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