Hard Drive size not correctly being Detected on Dell 8100

[so14k at so14k.com]

Nope, works just fine... this is a laptop btw.

Brad

> I've had the funny faces with broken drives/cables. Does it work OK in
> Win2k? Ever make any funny clicking noises?
>
> Lawrence Farr
> EPC Direct Limited
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-freebsd-stable at freebsd.org
>> [mailto:owner-freebsd-stable at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of so14k at so14k.com
>> Sent: 05 April 2003 05:12
>> To: freebsd-stable at freebsd.org
>> Subject: Hard Drive size not correctly being Detected on Dell 8100
>>
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I didn't recieve a response on freebsd-mobile, so I'm trying here.
>>
>> 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 at A 4!0> [1407/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA33
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Brad Davis
>>
>>
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