Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2000 21:33:50 -0500 From: Jim Graham <jim@n5ial.gnt.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD 4.1.1 refuses to see 30GB hard drive as > 2GB Message-ID: <20001007213350.A2124@n5ial.gnt.net>
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I've just attempted to add a Maxtor MXT 53073H4 30.7GB hard drive
to my system. Unfortunately, no matter what I do, FreeBSD 4.1.1
insists that it's only 2014 MB.
Here's what I've tried.....
First, I tried using /stand/sysinstall. No matter what I did, I could
not convince it to use more than 2 GB. :-(
Then, I used a (shudder) Win98 boot disk and its fdisk---it was quite happy
to fdisk and format a 29.9GB dos partition for me. When I tried to mount
that using FreeBSD, FreeBSD complained, saying: "ad1s1: slice extends
beyond end of disk: truncating from 60018777 to 4124673 sectors". I tried
to write to that disk anyways...bad move---FreeBSD went tango uniform
(i.e., it locked up hard).
I've changed the BIOS settings (which I'm not convinced that any Unix
would use anyways), using LBA, LARGE, NORMAL, AUTO, etc....nothing makes
any difference.
It seems that no matter what I do, FreeBSD insists on seeing this as a
2 GB drive. :-(
System details:
650 MHz AMD Athlon on an ASUS K7V Motherboard
ad0 (seen quite happily):
19547MB <FUJITSU MPF3204AH> [39714/16/63] at ata0-master using UDMA33
ad1 (fubar):
2014MB <Maxtor 53073H4> [4092/16/63] at ata0-slave using UDMA66
Note that the above info for ad1 is what FreeBSD is seeing at boot, and
is *NOT* what's stored in the BIOS config..... BIOS says 4092/255/63
or 1024/255/63, depending on what the settings are (LBA, etc).
Forgive my ignorance, but the only time I've ever tried to use a disk
this large before was on a Sun Enterprise 3500, which didn't have the
limitations of the PC architecture.
Has anyone run into this problem before? Can anyone offer any fixes
other than starting over by installing FreeBSD from scratch so (hopefully)
it will figure out what to do on its own? I saw questions resembling this
on the list archives, but if there were answers to those questions, I
missed them....
Suggestions, comments, and even RTFMs (with a pointer to the FM that
I've missed, please), most welcome.
Thanks,
--jim
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