Date: 05 Nov 1999 09:27:44 +0100 From: Fritz Heinrichmeyer <fritz.heinrichmeyer@fernuni-hagen.de> To: Roelof Osinga <roelof@nisser.com> Cc: Alejandro Ramirez <ales@megared.net.mx>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: disk cylinder count wrong Message-ID: <ufbt99wdfj.fsf@jfh00.fernuni-hagen.de> In-Reply-To: Roelof Osinga's message of "Thu, 04 Nov 1999 17:09:19 %2B0100" References: <382054E6.67A72B4D@nisser.com> <034901bf2620$68d59520$bdc3fea9@megared.net.mx> <3821AFAF.E1B6A92D@nisser.com>
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i recently struggled at home with a 15 GB HD and realized to late that all is answered in the FAQ!! file:/usr/share/doc/FAQ/FAQ39.html#39: there is written: ... the simplest way around this is usually to create a small DOS partition on the disk. The correct geometry should then be detected .... -- Fritz Heinrichmeyer mailto:fritz.heinrichmeyer@fernuni-hagen.de FernUniversitaet Hagen, LG ES, 58084 Hagen (Germany) tel:+49 2331/987-1166 fax:987-355 http://ES-i2.fernuni-hagen.de/~jfh To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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