Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2002 13:24:34 -0600 From: Craig Holmes <Craig.Holmes@gov.ab.ca> To: "'freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG'" <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Hard Drive Geometry Message-ID: <BBC7E3C1D2B9D111A2FE00805F9F12100A8571E3@emspwssncc4.pwss.gov.ab.ca>
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Hi, I have a FreeBSD machine with two hard drives. They are both picked up properly by the BIOS, one is Samsung 3GB drive and the other is a 15GB Maxtor(model 31536H2). However in the FreeBSD installer the 15 GB drive is shown as a 2GB drive with improper drive geometry of 4092 cyls/16 heads/63 sectors. I have tred changing the drive geometry to 16383 Cyls/16 Heads and 63 sectors, but sysinstall still recognizes it as 2GB and will only let me partition 2GB worth. Can somebody please help me figure out how to get FreeBSD to recognize the proper size of my drive. this is driving me crazy. Craig This communication is intended for the use of the recipient to which it is addressed, and may contain confidential, personal and or privileged information. Please contact us immediately if you are not the intended recipient of this communication, and do not copy, distribute, or take action relying on it. Any communication received in error, or subsequent reply, should be deleted or destroyed. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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