From owner-freebsd-current Thu May 31 12:25:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail.yadt.co.uk (yadt.demon.co.uk [158.152.4.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6779537B422 for ; Thu, 31 May 2001 12:25:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from davidt@yadt.co.uk) Received: (qmail 52010 invoked from network); 31 May 2001 19:25:15 -0000 Received: from gattaca.local.yadt.co.uk (HELO mail.gattaca.yadt.co.uk) (qmailr@10.0.0.2) by xfiles.yadt.co.uk with SMTP; 31 May 2001 19:25:15 -0000 Received: (qmail 36856 invoked by uid 1000); 31 May 2001 19:25:30 -0000 Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 20:25:30 +0100 From: David Taylor To: bio@gmx.net Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Possible Install bug for the following hardware in FreeBSD Stable (4.3) Message-ID: <20010531202530.B22973@gattaca.yadt.co.uk> Mail-Followup-To: bio@gmx.net, freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: <200105301322.f4UDMlw03356@silence.sparrows.ici> <20010531120113.A26422@gattaca.yadt.co.uk> <200105311149.f4VBn3w08821@silence.sparrows.ici> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="uQr8t48UFsdbeI+V" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200105311149.f4VBn3w08821@silence.sparrows.ici>; from content@openprojects.net on Thu, May 31, 2001 at 13:49:03 +0200 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 --uQr8t48UFsdbeI+V Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 31 May 2001, Darian Lanx wrote: >=20 > > 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. > > 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. >=20 I'm not a hardware guru either, and I know very little about the internals of FreeBSD's IDE drivers, so I'm not sure how windows/linux are detecting the correct geometry, and FreeBSD isn't... Unfortunately, if your drive doesn't have a jumper like that, I've no idea what could be wrong... --=20 David Taylor davidt@yadt.co.uk --uQr8t48UFsdbeI+V Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7FpqqfIqKXSsJ/xERAgZTAKDInB1f6wgR8o9ZPss5xXJtHJMsaQCdG4FJ +qawgM7WyFiTswb7bKr4MqA= =zylT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --uQr8t48UFsdbeI+V-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message