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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 

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