Have you tried to do it with normal jumper settings not what WD told you? I've just setup a 17GB HD on a 486SLC2 just fine. The BIOS detects it wrong, but FreeBSD detects the size just fine. I've got it set as Master, and a CD-ROM as slave and it works fine. Try that is SHOULD work.
Anish Mistry [EMAIL PROTECTED] AM Productions http://am-productions.yi.org/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Feller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Anish Mistry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 11:17 AM Subject: Re: FreeBSD Install -- FDISK > The only place I have jumpers is (1) on Master and (1) on Slave.. Western > Digital told me this is the only way I can get this drive to work in an old > machine like this. > > Any other ideas? I did that disk geometry thing and then FDISK showed it as > 33.427 GB at the top, but still nothing better than 2 GB when I go to make > partitions. > > > Jeff Feller > BitZ Communications > 1829 South Broadway, Suite 1 > Minot, ND 58701 > > Tel: 701.838.9211 > Web: http://www.bitz.net/ > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Anish Mistry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Giorgos Keramidas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 10:59 PM > Subject: Re: FreeBSD Install -- FDISK > > > On Monday 15 July 2002 07:11 pm, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > Jeff Feller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. > > > > 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. > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > Double check the jumpers on the drive. Some drives set a jumper in a > resting > position on some pins that don't matter, you should remove it. I've had it > cause problems with FreeBSD hard drive detection. Once that was done it > worked fine. > > -- > Anish Mistry > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
