Thanks all who answered so quickly. The PC's BIOS detects the complete capacity. The access mode was "auto", and I have changed it to "LBA", but the same result: FreeBSD still sees a disk (on ad2) capacity of 127 GB. The FreeBSD version installed is 5.4
Thus, I have installed the disk under Windows 2000, and behaves the same way. However Windows XP recognizes the full capacity. The disk is a Seagate IDE Ultra ATA disk. Unfortunately site www.48bitlba.com only offers help for Windows-based systems, and the tools are also for Windows-based OS. Anyway, I have ignored the warning regarding the geometry inaccuracy, done the following manually: fdisk -I /dev/ad2 bsdlabel -w /dev/ad2s1 newfs -U /dev/ad2s1a mkdir /mydata mount /dev/ad2s1a /mydata echo "/dev/ad2s1a /mydata ufs rw 2 2" >> /etc/fstab but for FreeBSD the disk's capacity is still 127 GB. The BIOS date is 21 Mar 2002. I've found out that there is a BIOS upgrade for the motherboard dated June 2002 (if I'm not wrong). So, will upgrading the BIOS solve this issue? Or will upgrading to FreeBSD 6.2 solve it instead? Thanks in advance for any hint or suggestion. Aitor -----Original message----- To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Installing a second hard disk > Hi List, > > I am trying to install a secondary hard disk in a Intel-based PC > with FreeBSD 5.4 > > This secondary disk's capacity is 250 Gb. When I enter sysintall > to try to format it and create a slice, FreeBSD says that the > geometry of disk is not correct. I, then, type in the values detected > by the BIOS as suggested, but FreeBSD still complains that those > are not valid. FreeBSD sees the new disk as a disk of approx. 131 GB. > > So my question is: where is the problem? Is it that FreeBSD is not > able to recognise such a big disk capacity? > > Any hint, suggestion, or web link would be highly appreciated. > > Thanks in advance > Aitor. ************ LEGEZKO OHARRA / AVISO LEGAL / LEGAL ADVICE ************* Mezu honek isilpeko informazioa gorde dezake, edo jabea duena, edota legez babestuta dagoena. Zuri zuzendua ez bada, bidali duenari esan eta ezabatu, inori berbidali edo gorde gabe, legeak debekatzen duelako mezuak erabiltzea baimenik gabe. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Este mensaje puede contener información confidencial, en propiedad o legalmente protegida. Si usted no es el destinatario, le rogamos lo comunique al remitente y proceda a borrarlo, sin reenviarlo ni conservarlo, ya que su uso no autorizado está prohibido legalmente. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- This message may contain confidential, proprietary or legally privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, please notify it to the sender and delete without resending or backing it, as it is legally prohibited. ************************************************************************** _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
