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To: Tony Wells <awells@journalstar.com>
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Subject: Re: Fdisk via /stand/sysinstall won't set proper disk size
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Is it set properly in the mobo BIOS? Try tweaking the LBA, etc settings.

Tony Wells wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I have an old 8G Maxtor disk I'm trying to install through
> /stand/sysinstall.  I go to the Configure->Fdisk screen and it shows up
> as a 4G disk, so I set the correct cylinders/heads/sectors and then it
> shows up as an 8G disk at the top of the screen, but still only allows
> me to use 4G for a FreeBSD filesystem.
> 
> Is there a trick to get this to work, or do I need to do this from a
> command line to utilize all the disk?
> 
> If I have to do this from the command line, does anyone know the proper
> fdisk switches?
> 
> Here's the layout of the disk:
> 
> cylinders/heads/sectors
> 16383/16/63
> 
> TIA,
> Tony Wells
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