Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 14:19:42 +0200 From: "Daan Vreeken [PA4DAN]" <Danovitsch@Vitsch.net> To: Svein Halvor Halvorsen <svein-freebsd-questions@theloosingend.net> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 128 GiB+ disks on Intel PIIX4 Message-ID: <200410181419.42642.Danovitsch@Vitsch.net> In-Reply-To: <20041018125351.R24455@maren.thelosingend.net> References: <20041018125351.R24455@maren.thelosingend.net>
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On Monday 18 October 2004 13:03, Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: > Is this at all possible? My BIOS don't seem to recognize my brand new 200 > GB disk, but that is nothing new. I can initialize a new slize, setup > bsdlabel and do newfs on if without problems. How can I verify that the > entire disk is usable without filling it all up (or past the 128 GiB > barrier), and then reading everything back out? Try copying the entire disk to /dev/null : dd if=/dev/ad1 of=/dev/null If it succeeds without errors, you should also be able to write the entire disk. grtz, Daan
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