Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 13:51:07 -0600 From: Loren Thiel <thiel@genevaonline.com> To: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Big IDE disks? Message-ID: <199903112000.OAA27658@battleship.genevaonline.com> In-Reply-To: <36E80304.C99C501E@algroup.co.uk>
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I believe I saw an update on microsloths site for fdisk to make it see disks larger than 8GB. If that's the fdisk you're referring to. Loren At 11:53 AM 3/11/99 , Ben Laurie wrote: >I'm trying to install an 18 GB EIDE disk on FreeBSD 2.2.7. The BIOS >concedes that it is big, after I enable "S.M.A.R.T." (whatever that is), >but fdisk refuses to believe it is any larger than 8 GB. Is there a way >to make this work? > >Cheers, > >Ben. > >-- >http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html > >"My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those >who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the >first group; there was less competition there." > - Indira Gandhi > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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