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From: arog@BIX.com (arog on BIX)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: My IDE drive becomes smaller?
Date: 15 Sep 94 08:47:31 GMT
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myhst1+@pitt.edu (Ming Y Haung) writes:


>Hi, 

>I got one problem.  I have two IDE drive in my computer, and used the
>540MB as wd1 for freebsd, I tried to reformat the hard drive, but the
>dos format oly give me 11.4MB of the disk, also if I use dos's fdisk
>to check, it tell me that the maximum capacit of this drive is 11.4MB,
>what's wrong with the extra 500MB?

>Anyone has any idea?

>Thanks!



Check the 'cmos' set up for the drive. I would expect
to find that it has radically wrong parameters set in
it.

........................................................
Alan Ogden,
arog@BIX.com