From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Dec 16 03:22:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA26147 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 03:22:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cinnamon.michvhf.com (cinnamon.michvhf.com [209.57.60.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id DAA26142 for ; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 03:22:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from vev@michvhf.com) Received: (qmail 29049 invoked from network); 16 Dec 1998 11:21:52 -0000 Received: from cinnamon.michvhf.com (209.57.60.10) by cinnamon.michvhf.com with SMTP; 16 Dec 1998 11:21:52 -0000 Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 06:21:51 -0500 (EST) From: Vince Vielhaber To: Eddie Irvine cc: "stable@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: wd devices >9Gb in size. In-Reply-To: <36779309.95D27CCD@tpgi.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 16 Dec 1998, Eddie Irvine wrote: > freeBSD is going so well I got a second hard disk. It was advertised > as 10 Gb. I had a fool round with it this morning and fdisk is giving > me error messages I don't understand yet. Anyhow, I recall something > about FreeBSD STABLE not coping with HDD bigger than 8 Gb. > > Is this still the case? I have the 3.0 disks, but I wanted to put off > the full upgrade 'till I'd initialised this second HDD and made a > backup to it. IIRC, This was supposed to be fixed in 2.2.8 so stable should be ok. I know it's not fixed in 2.2.7. Vince. -- ========================================================================== Vince Vielhaber -- KA8CSH email: vev@michvhf.com flame-mail: /dev/null # include TEAM-OS2 Online Searchable Campground Listings http://www.camping-usa.com "There is no outfit less entitled to lecture me about bloat than the federal government" -- Tony Snow ========================================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message