From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 23 10:59:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from 2711.dynacom.net (2711.dynacom.net [206.107.213.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53DA337B43E for ; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 10:59:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from urx.com (dsl1-160.dynacom.net [206.159.132.160]) by 2711.dynacom.net (Build 101 8.9.3/NT-8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA02946; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 10:58:51 -0700 Message-ID: <39A410DB.5129A060@urx.com> Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 10:58:51 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Reply-To: kstewart@urx.com Organization: Dynacom X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Travis Leuthauser Cc: Cory.Wiggins@nokia.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing Hard Drive References: <018901c00d21$53364000$20503cd0@travis> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Travis Leuthauser wrote: > > Browsing Maxtor's web site, it appears that that is an IDE drive. I > personally had uncountable problems adding a 45G IDE to 3.5. My only > solution was to update to 4.X. That is what I would suggest to you. Others > may have better experiences and/or advice. The limit at 3.x was 33.x GB. There are some people that have trouble with 4.x and Maxtor UDMA66's. I don't have a motherboards that supports UDMA66 but IIRC, it was mostly on Via based motherboards. Kent > > Travis Leuthauser > Network Administrator > WinConX Online, Inc. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: > To: > Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2000 11:32 AM > Subject: Installing Hard Drive > > > I'm having problems installing a Maxtor 96147U8 60Gig hard drive on > FreeBSD > > 3.4 No matter what I try to do I can't change the geometry of the drive > to > > match it specs. Any idea's how this can be done. > > > > > > > > Cory Wiggins > > > > Internet Commerce Enhancement (ICE) > > Nokia Internet Communications (NIC) > > Tower A, Suite 400, 555 Legget Drive > > Kanata, Ontario, Canada, K2K 2X3 > > Phone: (613)271-6797, Fax: (613)271-2870 > > E-mail: cory.wiggins@nokia.com > > > > > > > > > > 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 -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message