Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 22:09:06 -0700 (MST) From: Kurt Olsen <kurto@bootp.sls.usu.edu> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Big IDE drives (>8 GB) Message-ID: <199801220509.WAA07467@bootp.sls.usu.edu>
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I recently purchased a 12 Gig Bigfoot EIDE drive. At boot up, the probes
identify the drive as an 8 Gig. I went into fdisk and adjusted the numbers
up to where they should be and managed to get an install working. Just
wondering what kind of issues are involved with this. I suspect everything
is ok, but I just want to be sure.
BTW, for a fat, slow drive it sure is fast (8 MB/sec reads, 9 MB/sec
writes on this little 486/33.)
Any comments?
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FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE #0: Tue Oct 21 14:33:00 GMT 1997
jkh@time.cdrom.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC
CPU: i486DX (486-class CPU)
real memory = 20971520 (20480K bytes)
avail memory = 18223104 (17796K bytes)
Probing for devices on the ISA bus:
sc0 at 0x60-0x6f irq 1 on motherboard
sc0: VGA color <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x0>
ed0 at 0x300-0x31f irq 5 on isa
ed0: address 00:40:95:15:3c:b9, type NE2000 (16 bit)
sio0 at 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 on isa
sio0: type 16550A
lpt0 at 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa
lpt0: Interrupt-driven port
lp0: TCP/IP capable interface
fdc0 at 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa
fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold
fd0: 1.44MB 3.5in
wdc0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14 on isa
wdc0: unit 0 (wd0): <QUANTUM Bigfoot TX12.0AT>
wd0: 8063MB (16514064 sectors), 16383 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S
wdc1 not found at 0x170
npx0 flags 0x1 on motherboard
npx0: INT 16 interface
And a df -k:
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/wd0a 33871 13841 17321 44% /
/dev/wd0s1e 59471 680 54034 1% /var
/dev/wd0s1f 11433970 143047 10376206 1% /usr
procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc
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