Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 01:11:56 +0100 From: Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie> To: hundin@hal-pc.org Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: drive geometry problem Message-ID: <200109270111.aa75066@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 25 Sep 2001 15:25:26 GMT." <200109251525.KAA18120@mail.hal-pc.org>
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In message <200109251525.KAA18120@mail.hal-pc.org>, hundin@hal-pc.org writes: >e >drive was ~2gb. This bios has a bug in the ide detection that often assigns >random numbers to drive size. Ever since the kernel has reported the drive as >eing the size the bios thought it was the first time despite all efforts >including repartitioning manually with the correct geometry. the kernel just >complains and truncates the disk. i have booted from cd and dd'd zeros across Some IDE hard disks have a jumper that forces the drive to behave as a 2Gb disk. Could you have enabled such a jumper by accident? Ian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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