From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 13 2:34:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from external1.dialogbank.com (external.dialogbank.com [195.239.16.250]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B4B714ECC for ; Thu, 13 May 1999 02:34:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Dmitri_Blinov@dialogbank.com) Received: from mail.dlgbank.msk.su (panda.dialogbank.com [194.87.137.26]) by external1.dialogbank.com (8.9.3/8.6.11) with ESMTP id NAA31635 for ; Thu, 13 May 1999 13:34:38 +0400 Received: from SMTP ([194.87.137.43]) by mail.dlgbank.msk.su (Netscape Messaging Server 3.0) with SMTP id AAA22115 for ; Thu, 13 May 1999 13:34:38 +0400 Received: from klara.dialogbank.com ([192.168.15.13]) by 194.87.137.43 (Norton AntiVirus for Internet Email Gateways 1.0) ; Thu, 13 May 1999 12:25:20 0000 (GMT) Received: from dialogbank.com by klara.dialogbank.com (8.8.5) id FAA01125; Thu, 13 May 1999 05:34:35 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <373A9D26.307D6E1E@dialogbank.com> Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 13:36:38 +0400 From: Dmitri Blinov Organization: DialogBank X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: ru,en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Can FreeBSD see more than 8039Mb on my IDE 8.4Gb HDD ? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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