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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!MathWorks.Com!news2.near.net!news.delphi.com!BIX.com!arog 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 Organization: Delphi Internet Services Corporation Lines: 25 Message-ID: <arog.779618851@BIX.com> References: <357qnc$i13@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: bix.com 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