From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 25 22:16:20 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id WAA17181 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 25 Nov 1995 22:16:20 -0800 Received: from wireless.net (wireless-gw.wireless.net [128.49.236.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id WAA17152 for ; Sat, 25 Nov 1995 22:15:53 -0800 Received: from localhost (buaas@localhost) by wireless.net (8.3/8.3) id WAA06543; Sat, 25 Nov 1995 22:16:17 -0800 Date: Sat, 25 Nov 1995 22:16:17 -0800 From: "Robert A. Buaas" Message-Id: <199511260616.WAA06543@wireless.net> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: WD21000 - 1GB disk won't fsck Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Has anyone else had trouble with this particular disk? (WD Cavier 21000: 1.04 Gb, 2100 cyl, 16 hd, 63 sec, IDE. Host is Cyrix 486DX2-80, ISA IDE card, VGA display adapter and NE2000 network card. Nothing fancy... After answering all the questions correctly, "commiting", the machine hangs trying to create the root filesystem on /dev/rwd0a. Disk lite on, HUNG.... LBA is turned off in the BIOS, if that matters. I tried changing the disk geometry (G command) to 1024/16/63, but the block seems not to be recomputed for the A (use all disk) command, so I'm left with the 1GB's worth of space. rebooting a DOS system, FDISK shows that the MBR and partition table was written by FreeBSD. I'm doing all this with 2.1.0-RELEASE, but also verified with 2.0.5-061295 SNAP kernel-on-floppy. Assistance much appreciated, always some learning. Thanks in advance. best regards/bob