From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue May 30 18:51:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from gabriel.schoolpeople.net (gabriel.schoolpeople.net [216.34.170.167]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D80437B7B3; Tue, 30 May 2000 18:51:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brandon@schoolpeople.net) Received: from triangulata (cs2887-130.austin.rr.com [24.28.87.130]) by gabriel.schoolpeople.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id UAA91920; Tue, 30 May 2000 20:42:45 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from brandon@schoolpeople.net) Message-ID: <008c01bfcaa3$24d852e0$82571c18@austin.rr.com> From: "Brandon DeYoung" To: "Nikolaus Spence" , "Mike Smith" Cc: References: <200005260047.RAA03353@mass.cdrom.com> Subject: Re: wrong disk geometry reported Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 20:54:17 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi Nik, Apologies if you've already checked this, but the first thing that jumps to my mind is double checking your bios settings i.e. Normal, large, LBA, etc... ~Brandon ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Smith" To: "Nikolaus Spence" Cc: Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2000 7:47 PM Subject: Re: wrong disk geometry reported > > I think I may have come across the first non-FreeBSD-compatible IDE disk > > drive. The Maxtor 15GB 7200RPM udma/66 drive. > > p/n st0151500u > > Nope. It's compatible. > > > I am installing it as a second drive and fdisk does not see (or want to > > beleive) the disk geometry. The actual disk geometry is 29651/16/63 but > > It's not; this is just one possible mapping between the drive's actual > capacity and the legacy c/h/s interface. > > > fdisk sees it as a 2GB drive with 2019/16/63. I set the disk geometry in > > fdisk and it still won't allow a partition bigger than 2GB. The primary > > disk in the system is another Maxtor 15GB drive which works fine. Not the > > same geometry but close. It even comes up as 2019/16/63 in the dmesg. I > > know the disk isn't bad because DOS/NT/Win98/BIOS sees it's full capacity. > > When I just set the disk geometry, create no partitions, and save info, I > > can restart fdisk and get 14xxx/7/14 geometry. These numbers are just > > strange all together. I figure that an IDE drive is an IDE drive and it's > > size may vary but they all work so far for me. > > You need to be much, much more detailed in your report for anyone to be > able to help you here. So far we have no idea which version of FreeBSD > you're running, nor which driver you're using, nor how the BIOS is set > up, etc. etc. > > Note also that you might want to use sysinstall to set the drive up to > avoid further confusion. > > -- > \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith > \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org > \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message