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From: "Brett Glass" <Brett_Glass@ccgate.infoworld.com>
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To: mgessner@winc.com, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: problem with 810MB drive
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Have you tried creating a tiny partition at the beginning of the disk with
a boot manager? This has let me get past the problem on some machines. Of
course, you waste about a MB of space for the small partition, but it's
better than not being able to use the disk.

--Brett