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Date:      Thu, 24 Dec 98 10:16:08 +0100
From:      Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr
To:        fassett@gfit.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, reynolds@gfit.net
Subject:   Question about 17.2 gig Ultra ATA / Maxtor DiamondMax 4320
Message-ID:  <H000057c01b4861b@MHS>
In-Reply-To: <000801be1742$ab52c000$3264ed8a@zeus>

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Hello,

>From the 2.2.8 Release notes :

================================================================
                         RELEASE NOTES
                 FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE VERSION
================================================================

1. What's new since 2.2.7
-------------------------

Kernel features:
----------------
o Add support for >8G IDE drives.

[more]

So, you must install a version more recent than 2.2.8-R (-Stable, for
example)

	TfH


> I have recently purchased a brand new Dell Dimension XPS vPii350 w/
128mg of
> ram and the largest harddisk I could -- we are currently running a
FreeBSD
> v2.2.x Server on an older 200 mhz MMX.  with 4gig.
> 
> The new computer has come with a Maxtor DiamondMax 4320, which by
convention
> is breaking the 8.4 gig limits.  The BIOS is recognizing the harddisk
> correctly, and showing it to be of 17.2gig, but we cannot get the
partition
> manager to allow us more than 8gig partition.  We have tryed manually
> entering the drives geometry, but that is not doing the trick.
> 
> Do you know of any support documents, or know an answer to this
problem.  As
> you might imagine, we are hoping to use all 17gig of harddisk space. 
We
> would like to cut the drive in 1/2, using 8gig for the /usr and split
the
> other 8 gig up between /var and /scr
> 
> If you know of a document that would help us in accomplishing this, we
> appreciate it.  And we are trying to use the holiday to configure this
--
> for whatever reason I did not think this was going to be a problem. 
And of
> course we have larger problems of moving from one machine to the other
to
> face, so any help, direction, documents, etc. that you might be able to
send
> my way, I really appreciate it.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> George Fassett
> 
> 
> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
>    George C. Fassett, Jr.  |    fassett@gfit.com
> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
>         G. Fassett Information Technologies
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>        www.gfit.com        |      817-923-2419
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> 


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