From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 24 11:25:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA29020 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 24 Oct 1998 11:25:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from Cartman.LAN.dom (ubppp233-85.dialin.buffalo.edu [128.205.233.85]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA29011 for ; Sat, 24 Oct 1998 11:25:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjm2@earthling.net) Received: from Beowulf.LAN.dom (Beowulf.LAN.dom [10.0.0.2]) by Cartman.LAN.dom (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA00248 for ; Sat, 24 Oct 1998 14:24:44 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from cjm2@earthling.net) Received: by localhost with Microsoft MAPI; Sat, 24 Oct 1998 14:23:24 -0400 Message-ID: <01BDFF59.DBD0AC20.cjm2@earthling.net> From: "Christopher J. Michaels" To: "'questions@FreeBSD.org'" Subject: Geometry troubles with new harddrive. Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 14:22:20 -0400 Organization: WCC X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet E-mail/MAPI - 8.0.0.4211 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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