From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jan 28 0:28:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mile.nevermind.kiev.ua (freebsddiary.org.ua [213.186.199.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B35C37B400 for ; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 00:28:07 -0800 (PST) Received: (from never@localhost) by mile.nevermind.kiev.ua (8.11.6/8.11.4) id g0S8RAQ55090; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 10:27:10 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from never) Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 10:27:10 +0200 From: Nevermind To: Joe Halpin Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD install doesn't see the whole disk Message-ID: <20020128082710.GD41742@nevermind.kiev.ua> References: <3C533643.E161CC67@attbi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3C533643.E161CC67@attbi.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.26i Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, Joe Halpin! On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 05:05:39PM -0600, you wrote: > I just put a new 30GB drive in my test machine (Maxtor IDE). When I > tried to install, fdisk didn't get the drive size right. So I used the > 'G' option and set the drive geometry manually. The summary at the top > of the screen looked correct after that, but the 'C' create option > apparently didn't get updated, and wouldn't let me create more than a > 2GB partition. > > Anyone have ideas? Try to set exact geometry for this drive manually, not autodetect in bios. Do you have 53073H4 model? If so, then set in your BIOS settings manually: 59554 cyl, 16 heads, 63 sectors. For reference see: http://www.maxtor.com/products/DiamondMax/DiamondMaxPlus/QuickSpecs/42077.pdf I had the same problems with my ad0: 14655MB [29777/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA100 -- NEVE-RIPE To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message