From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 9 20:34:45 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6ED0637B401 for ; Thu, 9 Jan 2003 20:34:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from sccrmhc01.attbi.com (sccrmhc01.attbi.com [204.127.202.61]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C478043F5B for ; Thu, 9 Jan 2003 20:34:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mav@wastegate.net) Received: from wastegate.net (12-226-185-104.client.attbi.com[12.226.185.104]) by sccrmhc01.attbi.com (sccrmhc01) with ESMTP id <20030110043437001004rm0ne>; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 04:34:38 +0000 Received: from MOTHER (mother.wg.local [192.168.1.5]) by wastegate.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1105748463; Thu, 9 Jan 2003 23:35:38 -0500 (EST) From: "Doug Reynolds" To: "mike@ascendency.net" , "Stephen Hovey" Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2003 23:35:49 -0500 X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Professional (2.20.2657) For Windows 2000 (5.1.2600) In-Reply-To: <001001c2b774$a0136470$0302a8c0@mike> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: RE: Bios not recognizing correct HD size Message-Id: <20030110043538.1105748463@wastegate.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 8 Jan 2003 18:18:18 -0600, Mike Loiterman wrote: > > >On Wednesday, January 08, 2003 5:54 PM Stephen Hovey wrote: > >>> I think you're right. So should I just define the drive correctlt in >>> fdisk? If so, what would be the proper settings. >> >> >> usually a drive has em on the drive on something - a sticker/label >> sorta thing with head, cyl, sect, etc > >Ok I found out the proper numbers: >39704 cyls, 16 heads, 63 sectors. > >I defined it that way in the BIOS. > >When I get to the fdisk part of the install I did 'G'. I then set the geometry according to those numbers and told it to use the entire drive. When I go to define the slices, though, it still thinks the drive is only 2 gigs. What am I doing wrong? I had the same trouble with a maxtor driver b4, couldn't figure it out. sometimes they come with a jumper enabled so you only see like 2 gig of a 20 gig drive, _even_ if you tell freebsd the whole geometry. i removed the jumper, and all was well --- doug reynolds | the maverick | mav@wastegate.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message