From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 5 08:19:29 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 8A73237B401 for ; Sat, 5 Apr 2003 08:19:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from h1.liquidneon.com (h1.liquidneon.com [66.252.192.116]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DD7DF43F85 for ; Sat, 5 Apr 2003 08:19:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from so14k@so14k.com) Received: (qmail 97884 invoked from network); 5 Apr 2003 16:19:27 -0000 Received: from h1.liquidneon.com (HELO so14k.com) (66.252.192.116) by h1.liquidneon.com with SMTP; 5 Apr 2003 16:19:27 -0000 Received: from 199.201.236.2 (SquirrelMail authenticated user so14k@so14k.com) by mail.so14k.com with HTTP; Sat, 5 Apr 2003 09:19:27 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <16642.199.201.236.2.1049559567.squirrel@mail.so14k.com> Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2003 09:19:27 -0700 (MST) From: To: In-Reply-To: <002801c2fb57$f4422fa0$c80aa8c0@lfarr> References: <56193.12.211.226.151.1049515942.squirrel@mail.so14k.com> <002801c2fb57$f4422fa0$c80aa8c0@lfarr> 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 cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: RE: 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 16:19:29 -0000 Nope, works just fine... this is a laptop btw. Brad > I've had the funny faces with broken drives/cables. Does it work OK in > Win2k? Ever make any funny clicking noises? > > Lawrence Farr > EPC Direct Limited > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org >> [mailto:owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of so14k@so14k.com >> Sent: 05 April 2003 05:12 >> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org >> Subject: Hard Drive size not correctly being Detected on Dell 8100 >> >> >> 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 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >>