Hard Drive size not correctly being Detected on Dell 8100
"Brad Davis" <[email protected]>
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Hello, I'm trying to install FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE or 5.0-RELEASE onto my Dell Inspirion 8100. I'mjust doing a Standard installation and when FDisk loads I get: Disk name: ad0 DISK Geometry: 88 cyls/255 heads/63 sectors = 1413720 sectors (690MB) So I go and manually change the drive geometry with the G option and it shows the windows 2000 NTFS partition as 692Mb instead of 9.76Gb that it really is. I found the HD model number with Google on someone elses dmesg and got the correct CHS: ad0: 28615MB <IC25N030ATDA04-0> [58140/16/63] This is what is shown before sysinstall launches, with the stuff in parentheses as ASCII characters: ad0: dma limited to UDMA33, non-ATA66 cable or device ad0: 692MB <(smiley face black)C 5(smiley face white)0(heart)0(smiley face black)T@A 4!0> [1407/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA33 Thanks, Brad Davis _________________________________________________________________ Protect your PC - get McAfee.com VirusScan Online http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [email protected] with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message