Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:01:25 -0400 From: "Christopher J. Michaels" <cjm2@earthling.net> To: "'jericho'" <jerichow@commons.aim-smart.com> Cc: "'questions@FreeBSD.org'" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Geometry troubles with new harddrive. Message-ID: <01BDFF5F.2C36B240.cjm2@earthling.net>
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I don't want it to work with FAT at all. I want it to be 100% FreeBSD. And I would like to know how to get FreeBSD to recognize the full size of the drive. The reason I mentioned the FAT32 biz at all is because I didn't know if maybe Windoze did something to the drive that BSD doesn't like. Thanks anyway tho, Chris -----Original Message----- From: jericho [SMTP:jerichow@commons.aim-smart.com] Sent: Saturday, October 24, 1998 2:30 PM To: Christopher J. Michaels Subject: Re: Geometry troubles with new harddrive. did u try reformatting it with fat16- from the documentation ive read i didnt think freebsd worked with fat32- just the standard dos fat16- if u need the data on the drive try to move it elsewhere for later retrieval after reformatting or you can use partition magic to change it to fat16 without data loss -----Original Message----- From: Christopher J. Michaels <cjm2@earthling.net> To: 'questions@FreeBSD.org' <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Date: Saturday, October 24, 1998 02:25 PM Subject: Geometry troubles with new harddrive. >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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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