Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 12:23:07 -0500 From: "Jeff Feller" <jeff@bitz.net> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: 40 GB Drive -- fdisk thinks it's a 2 GB.. ? Message-ID: <00a901c22e7f$c855ddb0$a500a8c0@zanardi>
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_00A6_01C22E55.DF2A1490 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi again, Just wanted to double check with you all to make sure there was nothing = else to try. =20 PROBLEM: Brand NEW Western Digital 40 GB Hard Drive in a Pentium 133 = with an ASUS TXP4 motherboard with the newest BIOS picks up my 40 GB = drive in the BIOS as a 33 GB or something close. When I boot off the = FreeBSD 4.6 CD and want to start doing fdisk to partition the drive, it = thinks it's a 2 GB drive. I've tried creating a 10 GB DOS partition, didn't work. I tried calling = Western Digital for any "tricks", they had no idea.. They said it was a = FreeBSD thing and sounds like it's treating it as a FAT16 file system, = but he didn't know if FreeBSD calls it FAT16 and FAT32, etc...=20 The drive is set to AUTO and LBA in the BIOS, but I've also tried = manually entering the numbers. I've also tried to play with the = geometries in the fdisk section and then it changed to a 33 GB drive or = whatever, but when you go to make partitions and what not, they don't = create -- so that didn't work. I think I've tried other things, but I'm drawing a blank! Oh yeah, one = more thing. I hooked this drive up to a Celeron 1 GHz system I had = laying around and everything went perfectly, as it should. I paritioned = off the drive, I installed FreeBSD with the drive as a 38 GB or whatever = and THEN I tried putting the drive back into the P133... FreeBSD began = to boot and then stopped when it came time to mount the hard drives and = came to a prompt that looked like this: mountroot> So, if any of you have ANY ideas what I can try next... Please let me = know... Otherwise I'll be looking to buy a CHEAP newer "barebone" system = that won't have a problem seeing this as a 40 GB drive. Jeff Feller BitZ Communications 1829 South Broadway, Suite 1 Minot, ND 58701 =20 Tel: 701.838.9211 Web: http://www.bitz.net/ ------=_NextPart_000_00A6_01C22E55.DF2A1490 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Diso-8859-1"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2716.2200" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Hi again,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Just wanted to double check with you = all to make=20 sure there was nothing else to try. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>PROBLEM: Brand NEW Western = Digital 40 GB Hard=20 Drive in a Pentium 133 with an ASUS TXP4 motherboard with the newest = BIOS picks=20 up my 40 GB drive in the BIOS as a 33 GB or something close. When = I boot=20 off the FreeBSD 4.6 CD and want to start doing fdisk to partition the = drive, it=20 thinks it's a 2 GB drive.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>I've tried creating a 10 GB DOS = partition, didn't=20 work. I tried calling Western Digital for any "tricks", they had = no idea..=20 They said it was a FreeBSD thing and sounds like it's treating it as a = FAT16=20 file system, but he didn't know if FreeBSD calls it FAT16 and FAT32, = etc...=20 </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>The drive is set to AUTO and LBA in the = BIOS, but=20 I've also tried manually entering the numbers. I've also tried to = play=20 with the geometries in the fdisk section and then it changed to a 33 GB = drive or=20 whatever, but when you go to make partitions and what not, they don't = create --=20 so that didn't work.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>I think I've tried other things, but = I'm drawing a=20 blank! Oh yeah, one more thing. I hooked this drive up = to a=20 Celeron 1 GHz system I had laying around and everything went perfectly, = as it=20 should. I paritioned off the drive, I installed FreeBSD with the = drive as=20 a 38 GB or whatever and THEN I tried putting the drive back into the = P133...=20 FreeBSD began to boot and then stopped when it came time to mount the = hard=20 drives and came to a prompt that looked like this:</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>mountroot></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>So, if any of you have ANY ideas what I = can try=20 next... Please let me know... Otherwise I'll be looking to buy a CHEAP = newer=20 "barebone" system that won't have a problem seeing this as a 40 GB=20 drive.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Jeff Feller<BR>BitZ = Communications<BR>1829 South=20 Broadway, Suite 1<BR>Minot, ND 58701<BR> <BR>Tel: =20 701.838.9211<BR>Web: <A=20 href=3D"http://www.bitz.net/">http://www.bitz.net/</A></FONT></DIV></BODY= ></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_00A6_01C22E55.DF2A1490-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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