From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 23 02:55:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA07408 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 23 Apr 1998 02:55:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA07337 for ; Thu, 23 Apr 1998 02:54:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from papillon.lemis.com ([192.122.138.250]) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA27132; Thu, 23 Apr 1998 19:24:29 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: (grog@localhost) by papillon.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.6.12) id NAA00635; Thu, 23 Apr 1998 13:55:49 +0800 (SGT) Message-ID: <19980423135547.45934@papillon.lemis.com> Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 13:55:47 +0800 From: Greg Lehey To: Caninet Administration , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 12 G hard drive and FreeBSD References: <199804211959.PAA03545@caninet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: <199804211959.PAA03545@caninet.com>; from Caninet Administration on Tue, Apr 21, 1998 at 03:33:49PM -0400 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 21 April 1998 at 15:33:49 -0400, Caninet Administration wrote: > Hello, > > I have just started to use FreeBSD (have been using Digital Unix for about > 4 years) and have installed it on PII 233 with 128M RAM. System is working > good, but I like to run a second news server on this machine and have just > got 4 BIGFOOT TX 12 G hard disks as well. > > My problem is that I can't figure out how to let FreeBSD know that it is 12 > G drives and not 8 G. I tried disklabel and editor, also have tried visual > configuration but nothing worked. I even tried to make two dos partitions > on one drive and FreeBSD is still showing only 8 G. > > Why? > > Does FreeBSD support 12 G or higher than 8 G IDE or SCSI? There was a problem which cropped up with exactly this drive (is it the first generally available IDE > 8 GB?). A patch was posted, and it worked, but I'm currently travelling and don't have it available. Check the mail archives, and if that doesn't work, send a brief question to -hackers. Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message