Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 23:59:18 -0400 From: Anish Mistry <mistry.7@osu.edu> To: Giorgos Keramidas <charon@labs.gr> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Install -- FDISK Message-ID: <200207152359.19014.mistry.7@osu.edu> In-Reply-To: <002001c22c55$02c80360$d4f4cdd4@LocalHost> References: <004e01c22c52$f1ab48f0$a500a8c0@zanardi> <002001c22c55$02c80360$d4f4cdd4@LocalHost>
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On Monday 15 July 2002 07:11 pm, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > Jeff Feller <jeff@bitz.net> wrote: > > I'm trying to install FreeBSD 4.6 on a Pentium 133 > > with a Western Digital 40 GB Hard Drive (WD400BB). > > The BIOS and everywhere else see's it as a 40 GB > > drive but when I get into FreeBSD's FDISK part it > > thinks it's a 2 GB drive. =20 >=20 > Sounds like disk geometry problems. Read the Handbook > section (in the installation chapter) that talks about > disk geometries and what BIOS thinks the disk is... etc. >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >=20 >=20 Double check the jumpers on the drive. Some drives set a jumper in a res= ting=20 position on some pins that don't matter, you should remove it. I've had = it=20 cause problems with FreeBSD hard drive detection. Once that was done it= =20 worked fine. --=20 Anish Mistry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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