Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 09:08:23 -0700 From: "Carl Delsey" <cdelsey@home.com> To: <kstewart@urx.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Fdisk recognizes 30GB hard drive as 2GB. Message-ID: <006001c0e147$19875100$6501a8c0@HOME> References: <000901c0e0c8$e04b82e0$6501a8c0@HOME> <3B075168.B145FAA5@urx.com>
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Thanks Kent. It looks like that is the problem. Unfortunately, it's not the solution. I've got an older motherboard, and the BIOS locks up without the jumper in place. I've reflashed the BIOS to the latest version but it doesn't fix the problem. Still, there should be a way around the problem since Win98 fdisk can detect the correct size. I've tried to manually change the drive geometry within the FreeBSD sysinstall fdisk program but it doesn't have any effect on the available size. Carl ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kent Stewart" <kstewart@urx.com> To: "Carl Delsey" <cdelsey@home.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2001 10:08 PM Subject: Re: Fdisk recognizes 30GB hard drive as 2GB. > > > Carl Delsey wrote: > > > > I am trying to install FreeBSD 4.3 onto a 32GB hard drive, but fdisk keeps > > thinking it is a 2GB drive. I've seen a number of messages in the archives > > for this mailing list of people having the same problem, but I couldn't find > > any solutions. Does anybody know if a solution to this problem has been > > found or not? > > If it is an ide, make sure you don't have the pin shorted that makes it a > 2gb drive. > > Kent > > > > > Thanks, > > Carl > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > -- > Kent Stewart > Richland, WA > > mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com > http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html > FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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