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I'm using FreeBSD 4.0 and this is a new installation.  I have a
Maxtor 91728D8 which is a 17 gig drive.  The label on the drive
says this:
cylinder   16383      head   16          sectors   63

When I boot up with the cd and do the Disk label it says this:
cylinder  4096         head  16          sectors  63

Which is now only giving me like maybe a little less than 2 gigs.
There is nothing physically wrong with the drive.  I boot up in
dos and it does the same thing on an Fdisk, tells me there is only
about a gig or so of space.  I tried fixing it with setting the geometry

in BSD, which when I set the geometry to the listing on the outside
of the drive it shows up correctly, but I write the information out
and reboot and it's back to 4096 cylinders.  The Bios is correctly
identifying the drive as you can see above in the drive ID, what can
I do to get my 16 gigs of space back?

B. Carlson

    Chad

Quote:

> I'm using FreeBSD 4.0 and this is a new installation.  I have a
> Maxtor 91728D8 which is a 17 gig drive.  The label on the drive
> says this:
> cylinder   16383      head   16          sectors   63

> When I boot up with the cd and do the Disk label it says this:
> cylinder  4096         head  16          sectors  63

> Which is now only giving me like maybe a little less than 2 gigs.
> There is nothing physically wrong with the drive.  I boot up in
> dos and it does the same thing on an Fdisk, tells me there is only
> about a gig or so of space.  I tried fixing it with setting the geometry

> in BSD, which when I set the geometry to the listing on the outside
> of the drive it shows up correctly, but I write the information out
> and reboot and it's back to 4096 cylinders.  The Bios is correctly
> identifying the drive as you can see above in the drive ID, what can
> I do to get my 16 gigs of space back?

> B. Carlson