From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 24 5:51:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web4401.mail.yahoo.com (web4401.mail.yahoo.com [216.115.105.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BA08637B401 for ; Sun, 24 Jun 2001 05:51:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ghoee@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20010624125142.11230.qmail@web4401.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [134.148.4.19] by web4401.mail.yahoo.com; Sun, 24 Jun 2001 05:51:42 PDT Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2001 05:51:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Ghoee Subject: Disk geometry : Real vs. BIOS To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I try to install a 40 GB HDD in a P-166 comp, which the bios setting only can get to 8 GB. However, under FBSD, it recognized the full 40 GB. On the other hand, it gives warning about some invalid disk geometry. Accroding to the online help, I should use the BIOS geometry setting. Question : Would it be a bad if I go ahead using the 'invalid' geometry and recoup all the space (it's a dedicated HDD anyway), resulting in some unforeseen future loss of data ? FYI, the 'unsolved' No Disk Found using sysinstall Fdisk most probably due to 'Extreme' security setting. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message