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From: Anish Mistry <mistry.7@osu.edu>
To: Giorgos Keramidas <charon@labs.gr>
Subject: Re: FreeBSD Install -- FDISK
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 23:59:18 -0400
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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.
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Double check the jumpers on the drive.  Some drives set a jumper in a res=
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position on some pins that don't matter, you should remove it.  I've had =
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cause problems with FreeBSD hard drive detection.   Once that was done it=
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worked fine.

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Anish Mistry


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