From owner-freebsd-mobile Mon Jan 27 1:13: 4 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6BFE37B401 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 01:13:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from hotmail.com (bay2-f159.bay2.hotmail.com [65.54.247.159]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A8D243EB2 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 01:13:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from striker_d@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 01:13:02 -0800 Received: from 12.211.226.151 by by2fd.bay2.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 09:13:02 GMT X-Originating-IP: [12.211.226.151] From: "Brad Davis" To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Hard Drive size not correctly being Detected on Dell 8100 Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 02:13:02 -0700 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 27 Jan 2003 09:13:02.0343 (UTC) FILETIME=[4B207970:01C2C5E4] Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hello, I'm trying to install FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE or 5.0-RELEASE onto my Dell Inspirion 8100. I'mjust doing a Standard installation and when FDisk loads I get: Disk name: ad0 DISK Geometry: 88 cyls/255 heads/63 sectors = 1413720 sectors (690MB) So I go and manually change the drive geometry with the G option and it shows the windows 2000 NTFS partition as 692Mb instead of 9.76Gb that it really is. I found the HD model number with Google on someone elses dmesg and got the correct CHS: ad0: 28615MB [58140/16/63] This is what is shown before sysinstall launches, with the stuff in parentheses as ASCII characters: ad0: dma limited to UDMA33, non-ATA66 cable or device ad0: 692MB <(smiley face black)C 5(smiley face white)0(heart)0(smiley face black)T@A 4!0> [1407/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA33 Thanks, Brad Davis _________________________________________________________________ Protect your PC - get McAfee.com VirusScan Online http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message