From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 3 8:33:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B73FF37B401 for ; Tue, 3 Dec 2002 08:33:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from topher.gintera.net (topher.gintera.net [64.81.97.41]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8DC643ECF for ; Tue, 3 Dec 2002 08:33:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rbg@gayteenresource.org) Received: from topher.gintera.net (chris@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by topher.gintera.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with SMTP id gB3GXZTZ075268; Tue, 3 Dec 2002 09:33:35 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from rbg@gayteenresource.org) Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 09:33:35 -0700 From: Christopher Rosado To: "Carlos Ross" Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Large disk support with Unix Message-Id: <20021203093335.7c4671ff.rbg@gayteenresource.org> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.6claws48 (GTK+ 1.2.10; ) X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE-p2 X-Message-Flag: 0x2b2b2b415448300d Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 On Tue, 03 Dec 2002 11:29:27 -0500 "Carlos Ross" wrote: CR> I'm having problems getting FDISK to use my 8.4GB hard disk; it CR> only sees 2GB of space. My BIOS supports large disks, and it CR> reports geometry c = 4092, H = 16, S= 63 with 16406208 total sectors. CR> FDISK reports the same geometry, but only one quarter of the total CR> sectors. CR> Prior to this, I installed Windows 2000, and QNX, and neither one CR> of those OS's had this problem. CR> I need to resolve this problem soon. Please advice. Check the jumper settings on the hard drive. -- Christopher Rosado To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message