From owner-freebsd-current Thu May 31 4:50:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from silence.sparrows.ici (chello212186015038.11.univie.teleweb.at [212.186.15.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40DEE37B43C for ; Thu, 31 May 2001 04:50:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from content@openprojects.net) Received: from there (Q.sparrow.ici [192.168.0.99]) by silence.sparrows.ici (8.11.2/8.11.2/SuSE Linux 8.11.1-0.5) with SMTP id f4VBn3w08821; Thu, 31 May 2001 13:49:04 +0200 Message-Id: <200105311149.f4VBn3w08821@silence.sparrows.ici> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Darian Lanx Reply-To: bio@gmx.net Organization: OPN To: David Taylor Subject: Re: Possible Install bug for the following hardware in FreeBSD Stable (4.3) Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 13:49:03 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2.2] References: <200105301322.f4UDMlw03356@silence.sparrows.ici> <20010531120113.A26422@gattaca.yadt.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20010531120113.A26422@gattaca.yadt.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I had this problem after I enabled the '4092-cylinder limit' jumper on = my > Maxtor drive, because my BIOS (at that point) hung with a drive over 40= 92 > cylinders. I flashed the BIOS afterwards, but forgot about the jumper, > because windows/linux both (somehow) saw the full geometry of the drive= =2E > FreeBSD only saw 2014MB until I removed the jumper. Perhaps your drive= has > a similar jumper? check the manual. Thank you David for the tip. None the less, has this issue witht he drive= r=20 been addressed? The driver should not bother about that, because the Hard= =20 disk reporst the correct size back. On the other, my drive does not have = such=20 a jumper, I just checked, so I am really at my wits ends. Thank you _very_ much for your help though, after about238623946 flames a= nd=20 23862394 stupid replys yours is very nicely detailed...thank you. > > > ad2 29314 MB [5956/16/63 at at-1-master UDMA100 > > 29314 * 1024 * 1024 bytes (i.e. 2914 megabytes) > =3D=3D 30736 * 1000 * 1000 bytes (i.e. 2914 million bytes) > > Its something harddrive manufacturers do to make their drives look > bigger... YEs, I just realized that after doing the right calculation: 3736 cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes=20 I am not a hardware guru ;) Thank you. ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; charset=3D"us-ascii";=20 name=3D"Attachment: 1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description:=20 ---------------------------------------- --=20 si vis pacem, para bellum ---- 'Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love. - Hamelt, Shakespear To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message