Re: Trouble with 3GB EIDE drive

[Dan Grabski <grabski@CIF.Rochester.EDU>]

> > So I partition that in fdisk, but it then refuses to see
> > any of the hard drive above about 512MB. I want to use all 3GB
> > of the drive for OpenBSD.
> 
> What was your geometry as reported by fdisk?

The geometry as reported by fdisk is 1023/16/63 [1031184 sectors].
But when I get to the disklabel editor in the install, I did a 'p'
to print out the disk stats, and got the following:

<snip>
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 63
tracks/cylinder: 16
sectors/cylinder: 1008
cylinders: 6296
total sectors: 6346368
free sectors: 1031121
<snip>

Now the total/free sector lines seem a bit odd, especially after
seeing your dmesg and fdisk output. I went through the install
again and let it do its thing, and it still complains about
running out of space after I create the 250MB root partition
and 150MB swap partition. I tried creating a 1000MB /usr partition,
and it complained about running ou of sectors.

Dan