Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 20:25:46 -0400 From: "Matt White" <mwhite@donet.com> To: "Brandon Hicks-www.gatekeep.net" <freebsd@unreal.gatekeep.net> Cc: <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: FreeBSD 3.2 install and large IDE drives Message-ID: <000101bebb7c$9af8fba0$6402030a@bunnynet.org> In-Reply-To: <008201bebb7a$31de2980$6fc9a1d0@mail.gatekeep.net>
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It's an IBM drive... I don't remember the model number, but I can reboot and grab it if it matters. =) Matt -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Brandon Hicks-www.gatekeep.net Sent: Sunday, June 20, 1999 8:08 PM To: Matt White Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 3.2 install and large IDE drives We just install'd a large IDE drive in our machine, and 3.2 install went fine... What type of Hard Drive is it? Mine was a Western Digital, and took the install just fine. (It was also a 17.2 gig) ******************************************************************* Gate Keeper Technologies Brandon Hicks System Administrator bhicks@gatekeep.net - Personal freebsd@gatekeep.net - FreeBSD Lists/Help (903)882-9559 www.gatekeep.net ******************************************************************* -----Original Message----- From: Matt White <mwhite@donet.com> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Date: Sunday, June 20, 1999 6:56 PM Subject: FreeBSD 3.2 install and large IDE drives >Hello... > >I may have uncovered a problem in the FreeBSD 3.2 install. > >I recently bought a new 18GB IDE drive, and I'm trying to install FreeBSD >3.2 into one of the partitions. When I run the FreeBSD "fdisk" (not sure >what's it actually called) during part of the install, it doesn't detect my >drive settings correctly, and thus thinks I'm okay of disk space. > >It's detecting it like this: > > - 255 Heads > - 2193 Cyls > - 63 Sectors > >And in reality is has: > > - 16 Heads > - 34960 Cyls > - 63 Sectors > > >I can't help but notice that 34960 - 2193 is the "magical" number 32767. > >The drive is detected correctly at boot time, which leads me to believe the >OS itself is fine, but it's the "fdisk" program that has the problem. When >I set the drive geometry manually it takes it, but it still doesn't see that >I have 7GB of unpartitioned space. > >Any ideas? > >Matt > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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