Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 23:51:44 -0400 From: David Banning <david@skytracker.ca> To: Ross Lippert <ripper@eskimo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: new hard drive, new problems, possibly related to 16383 cylinder spec Message-ID: <20030427235144.A69058@skytrackercanada.com> In-Reply-To: <20030427145221.A15019@eskimo.eskimo.com>; from ripper@eskimo.com on Sun, Apr 27, 2003 at 02:52:21PM -0700 References: <20030427145221.A15019@eskimo.eskimo.com>
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On Sun, Apr 27, 2003 at 02:52:21PM -0700, Ross Lippert wrote: > Hi, > > We installed a new harddrive over here. The first sign something was screwy > was when the FBSD (4.8) installed said "this drive has 74123 [some number > about there] cylinders and that is impossible! Please specify the geometry > manually" (well I didn't write the message down, so that's more of a > paraphrase ofit). > > After reading up on the fact that larger than 8GB drives (the new one is > 40GB) will report 16383x16x63 as the geometry, it seemed to me like this drive > was slightly violating this spec and reporting its true cylinder count. So > we manually set the geom to 16383x16x63 and proceeded merrily along. I don't know anything about your machine, but I know I've had some older pentium 100's and pentium 300's which have the 8 meg barrier. The only way, as far as I know to overcome it, is to replace the bios. In my case, considering the cost of the bios, I just bought a new machine.
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