From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 30 11:49:25 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA02548 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 30 Jan 1999 11:49:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from voicenet.com (mail11.voicenet.com [207.103.0.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA02535 for ; Sat, 30 Jan 1999 11:49:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from schwenk@voicenet.com) Received: (qmail 5213 invoked from network); 30 Jan 1999 19:49:14 -0000 Received: from dialup759-pri.voicenet.com (HELO voicenet.com) (207.103.74.187) by mail11.voicenet.com with SMTP; 30 Jan 1999 19:49:14 -0000 Message-ID: <36B36384.AD9A3270@voicenet.com> Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 14:54:44 -0500 From: Peter Schwenk Organization: Schwenk X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: joe@joe.to CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: EIDE drive References: <199901301759.JAA15246@c4.joe.to> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD 2.2.7 doesn't know how to handle drives larger than 8.4GB. 2.2.8 and 3.0 do. joe@joe.to wrote: > Hello. > > I'm running a 2.2.7 FreeBSD server. I have 2 6GB drives and I added a 13.6 GB > hard drive with 26353 cylinders, and /stand/sysinstall wont let me enter a > value that high. Actually it lets me enter a value but then when i create a > slice, the slice tops out at 8.4 MB. > > I followed the instructions for installing a dedicated-use disk but it only > recognized the drive as 8.4 MB (about 16 million blocks): > > 109 #newfs /dev/rwd2c > Warning: 1008 sector(s) in last cylinder unallocated > /dev/rwd2c: 16514064 sectors in 4032 cylinders of 1 tracks, 4096 sectors > 8063.5MB in 252 cyl groups (16 c/g, 32.00MB/g, 7680 i/g) > > the actual physical geometry is > 26353 cyls/16 heads/63 sectors = 26563824 sectors > > Do you know what I can do to correct this? > > Joe Lira > joe@joe.to > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- - Peter Schwenk - schwenk at voicenet dot com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message