From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Apr 26 20:46:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from cagelink.com (dsl94213.dyndsl.nettally.com [199.44.94.213]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA66337B41B for ; Fri, 26 Apr 2002 20:46:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: by cagelink.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id E29DB176; Fri, 26 Apr 2002 23:52:03 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cagelink.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF51082; Fri, 26 Apr 2002 23:52:03 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 23:52:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Tyler To: Bill Vermillion Cc: Subject: Re: Problem with large hard drive In-Reply-To: <20020427033548.GB4251@wjv.com> Message-ID: <20020426234414.N4836-100000@cagelink.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Its a ASUS P4S333-VM, 1.6Ghz P4, HDD is Maxtor 6L080J4, with AwardBIOS REVISION 1004. On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Bill Vermillion wrote: > When asked his whereabouts on Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 23:32 , > Tyler took the fifth, drank it, and then slurred: > > > Im installing FreeBSD on a server going into an ISP but im > > running into problems with drive geometry. The first time I > > tryed it said it was incorrect, set it to 9732/255/63 and > > installed. Didn't work. Then I tryed 16383/16/63, thats what > > Maxtor's Documents said. Didn't work. Then I went into the BIOS > > and set the HDD to manual and played around with the C/H/S > > and matching those with how I installed FreeBSD. Didn't work. > > I need to get this server up ASAP but im running into these > > problems. Any help will be greatly appreciated. > > You neglected to say anything about motherboards, processors, and > in particular the BIOS on the Mboard. I had one 1RU unit that I > upgraded and in the end I had to put on the jumper that Maxtor > indicates in the printed docs that come with the HD so that I only > got 30MB from a 40MB HD. I would need to upgrade the BIOS on the > mboard to handle more. > > I tried all variants known to man and many variants that other > sentient species may have tried, and all to no avail. > > Bill > -- > Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message