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Date:      Fri, 2 Jun 2000 17:15:50 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        lists@security.za.net
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 40gig IDE drives?
Message-ID:  <20000602171550.O22978@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10006020851450.530-100000@security.za.net>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10006020851450.530-100000@security.za.net>

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On Friday,  2 June 2000 at  8:52:46 +0200, lists@security.za.net wrote:
> Anyone know how to get a 40gig IDE drive working under FreeBSD?  It
> picks it up as having 79000 odd sectors and says that the geometary
> is wrong, and it doesnt work.

Have you set LBA mode?

Note that the wd driver has problems with partitions (not drives)
greater than about 27 GB.  The ata driver has no such problems.

Greg
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