Re: Trouble with 3GB EIDE drive

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

> Ok, translation is not happening in the BIOS.  The bios thinks that the
> disk is a 1023*16*63/2048 == 503MB disk.  It is simply truncating the
> cylinder values.
> 
> Have a look in your bios setup.  Set the disk type to LBA if you have it,
> or some sort of "translated" setting if you don't.

I set the hard drive to the LBA setting, and fdisk reports the
geometry as 511/32/63 -- still the 503MB. Had the same problem
with the disklabel editor running out of space on the hard
drive. There is no translated setting inn the BIOS.

BIOS did have a "large" setting for the hard drive. I tried it
and fdisk had the geometry as 1023/32/63 -- which works out
to 1007MB. Close, but not quite. I don't have any other
settings for the hard drive in BIOS.

> Note: if you have another OS on that drive, you might potentially have to
> re-install it when you change the drive setting in the BIOS.

Won't have any problem with that...I'm going to run only OpenBSD
on the drive.

Dan