From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 24 02:11:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA11475 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 24 Dec 1998 02:11:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alcatel.fr (gatekeeper.alcatel.fr [194.133.58.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA11469 for ; Thu, 24 Dec 1998 02:11:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr) From: Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr Received: from alcatel.fr (gatekeeper-ssn.alcatel.fr [155.132.180.244]) by mailgate.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP) with ESMTP id LAA21194; Thu, 24 Dec 1998 11:09:23 +0100 Received: from lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (lune.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.144.65]) by aifhs2.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP2) with ESMTP id LAA26807; Thu, 24 Dec 1998 11:09:07 +0100 (MET) Received: from telss1 (telss1.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.51.4]) by lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id KAA09036; Thu, 24 Dec 1998 10:18:41 +0100 (MET) Received: from telspace.alcatel.fr by telss1 (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA03690; Thu, 24 Dec 98 10:24:10 +0100 Received: from localhost by telspace.alcatel.fr with SMTP (1.40.112.12/16.2) id AA046270972; Thu, 24 Dec 1998 10:16:12 +0100 X-Openmail-Hops: 1 Date: Thu, 24 Dec 98 10:16:08 +0100 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <000801be1742$ab52c000$3264ed8a@zeus> Subject: Question about 17.2 gig Ultra ATA / Maxtor DiamondMax 4320 Mime-Version: 1.0 To: fassett@gfit.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, reynolds@gfit.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; name="Question" Content-Disposition: inline; filename="Question" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > www.gfit.com | 817-923-2419 > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message