From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 23 15:41:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from inet03.citec.qld.gov.au (inet03.citec.qld.gov.au [203.5.10.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84D8F14C1D for ; Sun, 23 Jan 2000 15:41:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sgcccdc@citec.qld.gov.au) Received: by inet03.citec.qld.gov.au; id JAA22985; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 09:41:36 +1000 (EST) Received: from guru.citec.qld.gov.au( 147.132.20.47) by inet03.citec.qld.gov.au via smap (V2.0) id xma022855; Mon, 24 Jan 00 09:41:30 +1000 Received: from localhost (sgcccdc@localhost) by guru.citec.qld.gov.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA26973; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 09:43:11 +1000 X-Authentication-Warning: guru.citec.qld.gov.au: sgcccdc owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 09:43:11 +1000 (EST) From: Colin Campbell To: Steve Hovey Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Large drives In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, From Greg Lehey's superb book (The Complete FreeBSD, 3rd edition, page 40): "Finally, at 8GB, the CHS system runs out of steam. It can't describe more than 1024 cylinders, 255 heads or 63 sectors. Beyond this size, you must use LBA addressing - if your BIOS supports it." Colin must On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Steve Hovey wrote: > > I thought there was an 8 or 9 gig lim on what freebsd could see of any one > signle drive - is this limitation gone? or is there some technic for > slicing something larger up? > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message