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From: myhst1+@pitt.edu (Ming Y Haung)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: My IDE drive becomes smaller?
Date: 14 Sep 1994 21:42:04 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh
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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!