From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 8 16:22:59 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67D2437B401 for ; Wed, 8 Jan 2003 16:22:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from fat_man.ascendency.net (12-211-152-75.client.attbi.com [12.211.152.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 531E343EA9 for ; Wed, 8 Jan 2003 16:22:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@ascendency.net) Received: from mike (user-119bct7.biz.mindspring.com [66.149.179.167]) (authenticated) by fat_man.ascendency.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h090M3Q25015; Wed, 8 Jan 2003 18:22:04 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from mike@ascendency.net) Reply-To: From: "Mike Loiterman" To: "'Stephen Hovey'" Cc: Subject: RE: Bios not recognizing correct HD size Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 18:18:18 -0600 Message-ID: <001001c2b774$a0136470$0302a8c0@mike> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.4024 Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 In-Reply-To: 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 =20 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday, January 08, 2003 5:54 PM Stephen Hovey = 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