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From: "Carl Delsey" <cdelsey@home.com>
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Subject: Re: Fdisk recognizes 30GB hard drive as 2GB.
Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 09:08:23 -0700
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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
> >
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