From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 3 18:06:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA08697 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:06:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ha1.rdc1.pa.home.com (ha1.rdc1.pa.home.com [24.2.5.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA08691 for ; Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:06:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nellie@home.com) Received: from cc219337-a.lwmrn1.pa.home.com ([24.3.111.2]) by ha1.rdc1.pa.home.com (Netscape Mail Server v2.02) with SMTP id AAA28104; Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:06:19 -0700 Date: Mon, 3 Aug 1998 21:01:52 -0400 (EDT) From: Wu-Tang Forever X-Sender: nellie@cc219337-a.lwmrn1.pa.home.com To: Ryan Turner cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: large hard drive In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19980803193024.00982d20@pop.erols.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Progress takes away what forever took to find -dmb On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, Ryan Turner wrote: > I just finished downloading 2.2.7, but it detects my 11.5 gig hard drive as > a 8 gig. I am using a Maxtor 91152D8. It is set up for LBA mode in the bios. > > The bios is set for 1401/255/63 and show 11524MB. > The setup program shows 16383/16/63 and 8063MB. > The partition part of the setup program show 1027/255/63. > > What should my bios disk geometry be set for? I would really like to be > able to use all of the drive. Perhaps it is because that the HD is 8 gigs after it is formatted? My 9.1 gig shows as 8 after it is formatted, and my 4.3 shows as 3.6 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message