From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 18 19:16:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA18108 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 18 May 1998 15:09:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA17990 for ; Mon, 18 May 1998 15:09:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA10193; Mon, 18 May 1998 15:09:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 15:09:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: "L. Floyd" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installation doesn't see unused portion of new HD In-Reply-To: <355E7463.9B11C4FA@sonic.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message