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
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
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
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
