FIXED: fdisk and HD's larger than 2GB
Would you believe it was a jumper on the HD that was causing all the problems. The HD is setup as the primary IDE master, but the jumper settings on the HD were not configured as such. Once the correct jumper settings were in place fdisk behaved normally. I'd like to add that I bought the PC as is from a friend, and so figured this kind of thing would already have been sorted. I won't make that kind of assumption again. So the good news is that I now have more than 2G to play with. The bad news is that seeing as I installed an OS while the jumpers were not configured correctly, this seems to have corrupted sections of the disk. So be warned: make sure your HD jumper settings are correct for the HD's position! Regards Dg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
fdisk and HD's larger than 2GB
Hi, I'm having a problem with the version of fdisk supplied with FreeBSD 4.6.2 (and I'm seeing the same problem on 4.7 too). fdisk always defaults to 256/255/63 for the C/H/S values of my disk, however this is not the correct values. After searching through the FAQ's and handbook I found some info about fdisk getting these values from the BIOS and how to switch this off. So I checked the BIOS. It reports the correct disk geometry so I know it is not that. So I went back to fdisk and changed the geometry, which worked OK. I then tried to create a partion that used the whole disk. As soon as I did that fdisk reverted to the orginal (and incorrect) geometry and only created a partion of 2GB rather than 20GB. I'm sure there is an FAQ, or someother doc that details how to get round this problem. However if there is one I cannot find it. If anyone has any info on what I can do so that fdisk will create a partion that uses all of the disk could you please let me know as the currently documented way doesn't work for me. If I can't get this to work I'm going to have to use Linux as I know this works. :( Regards Dg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: fdisk and HD's larger than 2GB
On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 12:26, Konrad Heuer wrote: On 13 Dec 2002, David Gethings wrote: If I can't get this to work I'm going to have to use Linux as I know this works. :( If you know Linux fdisk recognizing the disk correctly, you can try to use Linux fdisk to create a FreeBSD partition, can't you? You should than be able to use the partition withis FreeBSD sysinstall. I Know that this is not a real solution, but it may be a workaround. Hi Konrad, That thought did cross my mind after I sent the email out. If I must then I will do this, but I would rather be able to do this from within the FreeBSD install. Regards Dg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: fdisk and HD's larger than 2GB
On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 14:41, John Bleichert wrote: This can't be a bug or limitation in FreeBSD's fdisk, it must be a quirk in your hardware (we've all seen them hehe!). Since 4.5, I've had FreeBSD installed on several boxes with enormous hard drives in various partitioning schemes without a glitch. I had issues once with OpenBSD wanting to be on a smaller partition, but never with FreeBSD. Ah! Didn't think of that. I know it's a Maxtor something-or-other, I'll have to have a look to work out the exact model. Once I've done that I'll check the hardware compatability list. Cheers Dg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
