Problem with ide drive install

[XHMedia]

my problem is that I have a 80G ide drive that fpSense will see I have tried to format it to fat 32 and will not see it what is the best format for this?

[jimp]

If you boot from CD you should be able to install to that HDD.

pfSense doesn't use FAT32 format for hard drives, it uses FreeBSD's UFS/UFS2 format.

Now if this is an additional drive you are trying to add, that is not yet supported.

[The Printer Elf]

I've got a similar problem - except it's a 120GB disk that I've got lying around (my 2GB flash card has finally bitten the bullet after about 6 years!)
The error I keep getting on installation attempts is:

,-<<< Executing '/sbin/fdisk -v -f /tmp/format.fdisk ad1'
| ******* Working on device /dev/ad1 *******
| fdisk: WARNING line 1: number of cylinders (59130) may be out-of-range
| (must be within 1-1024 for normal BIOS operation, unless the entire disl
| is dedicated to FreeBSD)
| fdisk: ERROR line 1: number of sectors must be within (1-63)
'->>> Exit status: 1

I do want the entire disk available to FreeBSD (specifically Squid) if possible, but even going through the custom setup and using the suggested settings that produce a partition size of 7.16GB, it still fails on the next step.

Any ideas?