From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 4 20:12:24 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2EE537B401 for ; Fri, 4 Apr 2003 20:12:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from h1.liquidneon.com (h1.liquidneon.com [66.252.192.116]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0748F43F85 for ; Fri, 4 Apr 2003 20:12:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from so14k@so14k.com) Received: (qmail 90591 invoked from network); 5 Apr 2003 04:12:22 -0000 Received: from h1.liquidneon.com (HELO so14k.com) (66.252.192.116) by h1.liquidneon.com with SMTP; 5 Apr 2003 04:12:22 -0000 Received: from 12-211-226-151.client.attbi.com ([12.211.226.151]) (SquirrelMail authenticated user so14k@so14k.com) by mail.so14k.com with HTTP; Fri, 4 Apr 2003 21:12:22 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <56193.12.211.226.151.1049515942.squirrel@mail.so14k.com> Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2003 21:12:22 -0700 (MST) From: To: X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.2.11) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Hard Drive size not correctly being Detected on Dell 8100 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2003 04:12:24 -0000 Hello, I didn't recieve a response on freebsd-mobile, so I'm trying here. I'm trying to install FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE or 5.0-RELEASE onto my Dell Inspirion 8100. I'mjust doing a Standard installation and when FDisk loads I get: Disk name: ad0 DISK Geometry: 88 cyls/255 heads/63 sectors = 1413720 sectors (690MB) So I go and manually change the drive geometry with the G option and it shows the windows 2000 NTFS partition as 692Mb instead of 9.76Gb that it really is. I found the HD model number with Google on someone elses dmesg and got the correct CHS: ad0: 28615MB [58140/16/63] This is what is shown before sysinstall launches, with the stuff in parentheses as ASCII characters: ad0: dma limited to UDMA33, non-ATA66 cable or device ad0: 692MB <(smiley face black)C 5(smiley face white)0(heart)0(smiley face black)T@A 4!0> [1407/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA33 Thanks, Brad Davis