Subject: fdisk and larg ide drive
To: None <netbsd-help@NetBSD.org>
From: None <derek@iss.servebeer.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 05/06/2005 11:35:38
I have a 232gig ide drive that I am trying to add to my netbsd 2.02
installation. But no matter what I do I can not get fdisk to allow be to
pass 1024 cylinders.

from dmesg the drive is
 232 GB, 484406 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 488281250 sectors

I have tried -u with fdisk. and various -b -s -0 combinations to change
what the BIOS says to fdisk, but always get the same result I can't get
past 1024 cylinders limit.

I have even tried creating a disktab entry (via diskpart) then told fdisk
to use that with -T.

So how do I do it? Interestingly I have the Netbsd installed on another
232gig drive (on wd0) in the same system, but the installation menu from
the boot CD offered me the choice of BIOS or What Netbsd thought. I chose
Netbsd and it installed ok and has created the partition entry corrently.

Derek