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From: Kent Hauser <kent@tfd.com>
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Subject: large IDE disks
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I need some advice.

I'm putting a 2.2 GB IDE disk in my laptop. The problem is the
bad sector information. With the straightforward approach, you
can only store 126 bad sectors. A lot more than that were found.

My question is: how's this done? How do you get freebsd to
handle big disks?

Please respond directly as I'm not on the list. Thanks.

Kent