Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 14:22:20 -0400 From: "Christopher J. Michaels" <cjm2@earthling.net> To: "'questions@FreeBSD.org'" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Geometry troubles with new harddrive. Message-ID: <01BDFF59.DBD0AC20.cjm2@earthling.net>
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Hello, I don't know if my original question got through but I have more information this time around so I'm going to ask again. :) I installed a harddrive into my FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE machine. The harddrive was previously used in a Windows 95 machine, partitions entirely in FAT32. The parameters that the BIOS sees are 13328/15/63 for a size of 6449 MB. FreeBSD sees 4092/15/63 (3866940 sectors) for a size of 1888 MB. I have tried all 3 modes for the BIOS to report the drive (LBA, LARGE, & NORMAL). The numbers above are reported by NORMAL. I have tried editing the geomerty in /stand/sysintall and by using command line fdisk. Nothing seems to hold. I know this drive works. I've had it almost a year and never had trouble with it on the windows machine. What else can I do to get FreeBSD to report the proper size of this drive so I can move on to using it? -Chris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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