From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 18 16:37:04 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA11246 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 18 Jan 1999 16:37:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from inet.chip-web.com (c1003518-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com [24.1.82.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA11238 for ; Mon, 18 Jan 1999 16:37:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ludwigp@bigfoot.com) Received: (qmail 28105 invoked from network); 19 Jan 1999 00:36:48 -0000 Received: from speedy.chip-web.com (HELO speedy) (172.16.1.1) by inet.chip-web.com with SMTP; 19 Jan 1999 00:36:48 -0000 Message-Id: <4.1.19990118163017.00a47f00@mail-r> X-Sender: ludwigp2@mail-r X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 16:33:59 -0800 To: Jerry Preeper , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Ludwig Pummer Subject: Re: WD 8.4GB hard drive question In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19990118161047.04251070@crash.cts.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 04:10 PM 1/18/99 , Jerry Preeper wrote: >I'm in the process of building a second system with both Win 95 and >FreeBSD. I have noticed that when I try and use fdisk, it only shows the >8.4GB Western Digital Caviar hard drive as 504MB. According to Western >Digital's web site, it looks like I need to use the EZ-Drive utility to be >able to format and partition this disk. I have checked Asus' web site and >been trying to download a new BIOS for the Asus P2L97S motherboard but >Asus' ftp server has been down. I'm not sure if this will solve the >problem with recognizing the size or not. My question is, should I keep >trying and do the BIOS update first, or just use the EZ-Drive utility? >Will either of these cause any problems on the FreeBSD side? I'm currently >running 2.2.6-RELEASE and should be upgrading to 2.2.8-RELEASE soon. DOS needs LBA mode enabled in order to see past 504MB. If you don't have LBA mode enabled (option 2(Y) when you do the IDE auto-detect in the BIOS), you won't see past 504MB. FreeBSD doesn't need LBA mode on. It will see the true geometry (which might be a problem if you're mixing LBA and non-LBA translations...). What I've seen suggested on this list before is that you create a partition for FreeBSD using DOS's FDISK so that FreeBSD uses that geometry, and then convert that partition to FreeBSD (not exactly sure how this goes... maybe just changing the partition type to FreeBSD in FreeBSD's fdisk program). --Ludwig Pummer ( ludwigp@bigfoot.com ) ICQ UIN: 692441 ( ludwigp@email.com ) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message