From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Jul 7 13:36:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 451D737B40A for ; Sun, 7 Jul 2002 13:36:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from server.rucus.ru.ac.za (server.rucus.ru.ac.za [146.231.115.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 285E643E4A for ; Sun, 7 Jul 2002 13:35:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drs@rucus.ru.ac.za) Received: (qmail 25487 invoked from network); 7 Jul 2002 20:35:51 -0000 Received: from shell-fxp1.rucus.ru.ac.za (HELO shell.rucus.ru.ac.za) (10.0.0.1) by server.rucus.ru.ac.za with SMTP; 7 Jul 2002 20:35:51 -0000 Received: (qmail 3053 invoked by uid 10032); 7 Jul 2002 20:35:51 -0000 Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:35:51 +0200 From: David =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sieb=F6rger?= To: Craig Holmes Cc: newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hard Drive Geometry Message-ID: <20020707203551.GA2510@rucus.ru.ac.za> Mail-Followup-To: questions@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun 2002-07-07 (13:24), Craig Holmes wrote: > I have a FreeBSD machine with two hard drives. They are both picked up > properly by the BIOS, one is Samsung 3GB drive and the other is a 15GB > Maxtor(model 31536H2). However in the FreeBSD installer the 15 GB drive is > shown as a 2GB drive with improper drive geometry of 4092 cyls/16 heads/63 > sectors. I have tred changing the drive geometry to 16383 Cyls/16 Heads and > 63 sectors, but sysinstall still recognizes it as 2GB and will only let me > partition 2GB worth. Can somebody please help me figure out how to get > FreeBSD to recognize the proper size of my drive. this is driving me crazy. It sounds like your drive has the "2GB limit" jumper set. Some drives (including all the Maxtors I've seen) have a jumper which reduces the reported capacity to 2GB so old BIOSes can detect them. From a glance at Maxtor's site, it looks like that jumper is J46 on your drive and it must be open to report the full capacity. (ob. freebsd-newbies note: technical questions aren't really on-topic for this list; your question might've been better asked on -hardware or -questions.) -- David Siebörger drs@rucus.ru.ac.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message