Date: Sat, 16 May 1998 22:23:47 -0700 From: "L. Floyd" <lfloyd@sonic.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installation doesn't see unused portion of new HD Message-ID: <355E7463.9B11C4FA@sonic.net> References: <355E4397.EF90C7FF@sonic.net>
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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 > 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 > 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. > 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 > Then, when trying to set up the > FreeBSD slice, sysinstall didn't see any unused space on the disk. > > So, my questions are these: > > - Did I not partition the disk correctly? Do I need to specify an > "unused" chunk using fdisk? > - Will this hard disk work with FreeBSD? > > 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. > > Any ideas out there? > Thanks (again)! - Larry Floyd To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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