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Date:      Mon, 18 May 1998 15:09:07 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        "L. Floyd" <lfloyd@sonic.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Installation doesn't see unused portion of new HD
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980518150729.9951l-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <355E7463.9B11C4FA@sonic.net>

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On Sat, 16 May 1998, L. Floyd wrote:

> Some more information about my little puzzle... see inserts below.
> 
> L. Floyd wrote:
> > 
> > I'm having to reinstall FreeBSD (and Win95) due to a faulty hard disk.
> > The new hard disk is a:
> > 
> > Maxtor DiamondMax 2160

There are lots of problems with these drives.  Your failure is not
uncommon and is likely to happen again. 

> > Model 84320D4 4.32 gbytes
> > Ultra IDE
> > 8930 cylinders
> > 15 heads
> > 63 sectors
> > 
> > however, my BIOS, using logical block addressing, sets the parameters
> > as:
> > 
> > 525 cylinders
> > 255 heads
> > 63 sectors

That should be correct for LBA.

> My motherboard does not have an Ultra IDE controller, only an Enhanced
> PCE IDE controller.  I had been using this controller with a Western
> Digital EIDE drive with FreeBSD installed... no problems (except that
> the hard disk had some unrepairable errors in the FreeBSD slice).  For
> what it's worth, I have 64 mbytes of RAM and the motherboard has the
> Intel 82430TX chip set.

430TX motherboard ... ok.

> > I partitioned 3.4 gbytes of the disk, using fdisk, for Win95 and left
> > the remaining 900 megs for FreeBSD.  I sucessfully reinstalled Win95,
> > and I was preparing to reinstall FreeBSD 2.2.5 by booting from a FreeBSD
> > floopy.  After eliminating conflicts in the kernel, FreeBSD began
> > booting up and probing.  During the probing, I noticed that it didn't
> > see the new disk correctly.  It saw it as being only something on the
> > order of 1.8 gbytes, not 4.3 gbytes.
> 
> I looked a little more closely when the drive was probed, and this is
> what FreeBSD saw:
> 
> 1888 mbytes
> 4092 cylinders
> 15 heads
> 63 sectors

Wonder if you need to turn LBA off.  

> > I have about 5 more days until my money-back warranty runs out.  I'm
> > tempted to just return the dang thing and wait until they get some
> > Western Digital EIDE drives back in... I've not had any trouble with
> > that type/brand.

I would suggest getting the WD.  

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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