Date: Mon, 3 Aug 1998 21:01:52 -0400 (EDT) From: Wu-Tang Forever <nellie@home.com> To: Ryan Turner <freebsd@vt.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: large hard drive Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02.9808032101040.227-100000@cc219337-a.lwmrn1.pa.home.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19980803193024.00982d20@pop.erols.com>
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Progress takes away what forever took to find -dmb On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, Ryan Turner wrote: > I just finished downloading 2.2.7, but it detects my 11.5 gig hard drive as > a 8 gig. I am using a Maxtor 91152D8. It is set up for LBA mode in the bios. > > The bios is set for 1401/255/63 and show 11524MB. > The setup program shows 16383/16/63 and 8063MB. > The partition part of the setup program show 1027/255/63. > > What should my bios disk geometry be set for? I would really like to be > able to use all of the drive. Perhaps it is because that the HD is 8 gigs after it is formatted? My 9.1 gig shows as 8 after it is formatted, and my 4.3 shows as 3.6 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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