Date: Sat, 16 May 1998 18:55:35 -0700 From: "L. Floyd" <lfloyd@sonic.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Installation doesn't see unused portion of new HD Message-ID: <355E4397.EF90C7FF@sonic.net>
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I'm having to reinstall FreeBSD (and Win95) due to a faulty hard disk. The new hard disk is a: Maxtor DiamondMax 2160 Model 84320D4 4.32 gbytes Ultra IDE 8930 cylinders 15 heads 63 sectors however, my BIOS, using logical block addressing, sets the parameters as: 525 cylinders 255 heads 63 sectors I partitioned 3.4 gbytes of the disk, using fdisk, for Win95 and left the remaining 900 megs for FreeBSD. I sucessfully reinstalled Win95, and I was preparing to reinstall FreeBSD 2.2.5 by booting from a FreeBSD floopy. After eliminating conflicts in the kernel, FreeBSD began booting up and probing. During the probing, I noticed that it didn't see the new disk correctly. It saw it as being only something on the order of 1.8 gbytes, not 4.3 gbytes. Then, when trying to set up the FreeBSD slice, sysinstall didn't see any unused space on the disk. So, my questions are these: - Did I not partition the disk correctly? Do I need to specify an "unused" chunk using fdisk? - Will this hard disk work with FreeBSD? I have about 5 more days until my money-back warranty runs out. I'm tempted to just return the dang thing and wait until they get some Western Digital EIDE drives back in... I've not had any trouble with that type/brand. Any ideas out there? Thanks! - Larry Floyd To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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