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From: tim@osvif.demon.co.uk
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Subject: 4.0-RELEASE does not see all disk.
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>Number:         18212
>Category:       i386
>Synopsis:       4.0-RELEASE does not see all disk.
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Apr 25 11:40:01 PDT 2000
>Closed-Date:    Mon Mar 12 17:52:02 PST 2001
>Last-Modified:  Mon Mar 12 17:52:13 PST 2001
>Originator:     tim crowther
>Release:        4.0-RELEASE
>Organization:
>Environment:
New install no uname -a available
>Description:
The disk patition does not detect geometry of 8930/15/63 and
even after changing it will not make a partiton greater than
1888Mb. The disk is 4Gb. Earlier versions of FreeBSD were ok
as is Mircosoft Windows 98.

My system is 32MB RAM, Intel Pentium-MMX 223, Maxtor 84320D4 (4Gb) drive
 and standard floppy disk.
>How-To-Repeat:
Just try to install using boot floppies and follow configure
instructions for disk partition.
>Fix:
none.

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback 
State-Changed-By: asmodai 
State-Changed-When: Sun Apr 30 09:21:16 PDT 2000 
State-Changed-Why:  
The originator needs to substantiate his claims for other people to even    
be remotely able to help him. 

From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>
To: tim@osvif.demon.co.uk
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: i386/18212: 4.0-RELEASE does not see all disk.
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 18:19:55 +0200

 -On [20000425 23:03], tim@osvif.demon.co.uk (tim@osvif.demon.co.uk) wrote:
 >New install no uname -a available
 >>Description:
 >The disk patition does not detect geometry of 8930/15/63 and
 >even after changing it will not make a partiton greater than
 >1888Mb. The disk is 4Gb. Earlier versions of FreeBSD were ok
 >as is Mircosoft Windows 98.
 
 You must substantiate what goes wrong.
 
 Any error messages, etc?
 
 >My system is 32MB RAM, Intel Pentium-MMX 223, Maxtor 84320D4 (4Gb) drive
 > and standard floppy disk.
 >>How-To-Repeat:
 >Just try to install using boot floppies and follow configure
 >instructions for disk partition.
 
 No.
 
 That works for me.  My 20 GB HD at home, my various 9 or 18 GB disks at
 work do not complain under 3.4, 4.0 or 5.0
 
 Substantiate.
 
 -- 
 Jeroen Ruigrok vd Werven/Asmodai    asmodai@[wxs.nl|bart.nl|freebsd.org]
 Documentation nutter/C-rated Coder BSD: Technical excellence at its best  
 The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>
 Who looks under the surface does so at his own risk...
 
State-Changed-From-To: feedback->closed 
State-Changed-By: des 
State-Changed-When: Mon Mar 12 17:52:02 PST 2001 
State-Changed-Why:  
Feedback timeout. 

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