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From: Jeremy Vandenhouten <jeremy.vandenhouten@marquette.edu>
To: Peter Chiu <pccb@yahoo.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.1.1 refuses to see 30GB hard drive as > 2GB
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Peter,

Actually, I have a Fujitsu drive that I recently pulled from one of my 
older machines that had the same quirk that you seem to be describing. 
The drive would not recognize properly unless I left off a "large 
chunk" doing nothing, at the end, amounting to the size of about 2mb.

----- Original Message -----
From: Peter Chiu <pccb@yahoo.com>
Date: Sunday, October 8, 2000 7:31 pm
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.1.1 refuses to see 30GB hard drive as > 2GB

> > Did I just waste $200 on a drive that I might not be able to 
> use, and
> > also might not be able to return?
> 
> 
> I have a Maxtor 40GB and this is my fdisk screen.
> I am running 4.1-release.
> 
> Hope this help.
> 
> 
> Disk name:      ad1                                    FDISK 
> Partition Editor
> DISK Geometry:  14773 cyls/86 heads/63 sectors = 80040114 sectors 
> (39082MB)
> Offset       Size(ST)        End     Name  PType       Desc  
> Subtype    Flags
> 
>         0   80041248   80041247    ad1s1      3    freebsd      
> 165    C     
> 
> 
> 
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