From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 6 11:41:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1.mx.pitdc1.stargate.net (smtp1.mx.pitdc1.stargate.net [206.210.69.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 91A0B37B400 for ; Wed, 6 Feb 2002 11:41:21 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 20665 invoked from network); 6 Feb 2002 19:40:54 -0000 Received: from dap-209-166-135-247.nfas.greensburg-tnt-1.sns234.pa.stargate.net (HELO wastegate.net) (209.166.135.247) by smtp1.mx.pitdc1.stargate.net with SMTP; 6 Feb 2002 19:40:54 -0000 Received: from mother.wastegate.net (mother.wg.local [192.168.1.2]) by wastegate.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 718164844F; Wed, 6 Feb 2002 14:41:23 -0500 (EST) From: "Doug Reynolds" To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" , "Jon Drukman" Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 14:43:28 -0500 Reply-To: "Doug Reynolds" X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Professional (2.20.2380) For Windows 98 (4.10.2222) In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020206091130.00b35e10@10.10.10.1> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: 40G disk recognized as 32G - can't override!? Message-Id: <20020206194123.718164844F@wastegate.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 06 Feb 2002 09:20:08 -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 my guess is your bios is incompatable with big drives --- doug reynolds | the maverick | mav@wastegate.net PGP Public Key Fingerprint: 6E7B 9993 B503 6D45 E33A 2019 26E5 C1DB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message