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Date:      Tue, 02 Aug 2005 10:32:18 -0500
From:      Matt Virus <mattvirus@navix.net>
To:        freebsd <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: ATA over 127 GByte on FBSD 4.8 ?
Message-ID:  <42EF9202.8030702@navix.net>
In-Reply-To: <20050802024031.35833.qmail@web33502.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
References:  <20050802024031.35833.qmail@web33502.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

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Mark Terribile wrote:
> ===I recently replaced smaller drives with a 160G and 250G drives (IDE).
> They were on the Gigabyte motherboard's SiS 963 chipset.  I discovered that
> attempts to access anything above 127G resulted in errors:
> 

You need a new ide controller.  I have several 200 and 250gb drives 
functioning in a fbsd 4.5 environment.  Your controllers do not support 
lba48.  $20 at the local computer store fixes your problems.



-- 
Matt Virus ("veer-iss")
http://www.mattvirus.net




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