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Hi again,
Just wanted to double check with you all to make
sure there was nothing else to try.
PROBLEM: Brand NEW Western Digital 40 GB Hard
Drive in a Pentium 133 with an ASUS TXP4 motherboard with the newest BIOS picks
up my 40 GB drive in the BIOS as a 33 GB or something close. When I boot
off the FreeBSD 4.6 CD and want to start doing fdisk to partition the drive, it
thinks it's a 2 GB drive.
I've tried creating a 10 GB DOS partition, didn't
work. I tried calling Western Digital for any "tricks", they had no idea..
They said it was a FreeBSD thing and sounds like it's treating it as a FAT16
file system, but he didn't know if FreeBSD calls it FAT16 and FAT32, etc...
The drive is set to AUTO and LBA in the BIOS, but
I've also tried manually entering the numbers. I've also tried to play
with the geometries in the fdisk section and then it changed to a 33 GB drive or
whatever, but when you go to make partitions and what not, they don't create --
so that didn't work.
I think I've tried other things, but I'm drawing a
blank! Oh yeah, one more thing. I hooked this drive up to a
Celeron 1 GHz system I had laying around and everything went perfectly, as it
should. I paritioned off the drive, I installed FreeBSD with the drive as
a 38 GB or whatever and THEN I tried putting the drive back into the P133...
FreeBSD began to boot and then stopped when it came time to mount the hard
drives and came to a prompt that looked like this:
mountroot>
So, if any of you have ANY ideas what I can try
next... Please let me know... Otherwise I'll be looking to buy a CHEAP newer
"barebone" system that won't have a problem seeing this as a 40 GB
drive.
Jeff Feller
BitZ Communications 1829 South Broadway, Suite 1 Minot, ND 58701 Tel: 701.838.9211 Web: http://www.bitz.net/ |
