Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 18:18:18 -0600 From: "Mike Loiterman" <mike@ascendency.net> To: "'Stephen Hovey'" <shovey@buffnet.net> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Bios not recognizing correct HD size Message-ID: <001001c2b774$a0136470$0302a8c0@mike> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10301081852570.1906-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net>
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=20 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday, January 08, 2003 5:54 PM Stephen Hovey = <mailto:shovey@buffnet.net> wrote: >> I think you're right. So should I just define the drive correctlt in >> fdisk? If so, what would be the proper settings. >=20 >=20 > usually a drive has em on the drive on something - a sticker/label > sorta thing with head, cyl, sect, etc Ok I found out the proper numbers: 39704 cyls, 16 heads, 63 sectors.=20 I defined it that way in the BIOS. When I get to the fdisk part of the install I did 'G'. I then set the = geometry according to those numbers and told it to use the entire drive. = When I go to define the slices, though, it still thinks the drive is = only 2 gigs. What am I doing wrong? - ------------------------------------------- Randomly Generated Quote: Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once. Mike Loiterman PGP Key 0xD1B9D18E http://www.ascendency.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 8.0 Comment: This message has been digitally signed by Mike Loiterman iQA/AwUBPhy/yWjZbUnRudGOEQJuMQCfdGPiziwQl63XRoKBezC+Qgc//SUAoNk6 BQUYb3spQEflY3x6i4a2A71G =3DAUgk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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