Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 13:36:38 +0400 From: Dmitri Blinov <Dmitri_Blinov@dialogbank.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Can FreeBSD see more than 8039Mb on my IDE 8.4Gb HDD ? Message-ID: <373A9D26.307D6E1E@dialogbank.com>
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Hello ! How can I manage to use last 400Mb of my 8.4Gb IDE HDD ? I installed FreeBSD 3.1 (Release). When I used FDISK option of sysinstall, I got the following situation : At the beggining of process my disk contained three partitions ( slices ) 1. FAT16 - 512Mb 2. Ext DOS - 1.5Gb 3. NTFS - 4Gb FDISK correctly determined that I have 2.4Gb of unused disk space. Then I tried to create FreeBSD partition with size of all free space on my disk. But when I pressed OK, I saw that new partition had 2Gb size and I still had 400Mb unused. Hmmm. Again I tried to create next ( 5 ) partition with the same procedure and when I pressed OK, I saw that this partition had 0Mb size and I still had 400Mb unused. I heard that Windows NT 4.0 had the same problem with IDE disks until SP4. They say it was ATAPI limitation or something like that - I don't remember now. I don't know if it important but for the sake of completeness there are my specs : HDD - IBM DTTA-350840. Motherboard - ChainTech BTM6 440BX. CPU - PII-350MHz. Thank you, Dmitry. PS. I tried it with 2.2.7-release as well and got the same result. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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