Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1998 12:49:28 -0500 (EST) From: "George's Mailing List Account" <gmelists@caffeine.sundial.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: fdisk not recognizing Maxtor 11.5gb HD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9811071243280.420-100000@caffeine.sundial.net>
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Hey Guys... I am trying to install a Maxtor 11.5Gb EIDE Hard Drive as wd1 in my FreeBSD system, which acts as samba server and gateway for my other computers here. I am running 2.2.7R. My problem is, fdisk (either through /stand/sysinstall or through fdisk itself) is not recognizing the 11.5Gb drive (actually it's 10.89gb formatted). Even by manually setting the drive geometry in fdisk to 22332 cyl, 16 hds, 63 sectors, and write out the partition table, disk label only see 8063Mb of available disk space. I was reading through the -questions archives, and Greg Lehey responded to Ryan Turner on Jul 26, 1998 regarding this same issue. Ryan was trying to use his Maxtor with 2.2.6. I'm running 2.2.7. Is there perhaps a patch that is available? I remember reading that perhaps there's an 8gb limit in the IDE code in the kernel. Is anyone familiar with this code? Could I patch the kernel myself to double those parameters? Any help appreciated! George Ellenburg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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