From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Dec 24 18: 0:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from tandem.milestonerdl.com (tandem.milestonerdl.com [204.107.138.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0707A15875 for ; Fri, 24 Dec 1999 18:00:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marc@tandem.milestonerdl.com) Received: from localhost (marc@localhost) by tandem.milestonerdl.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA94488; Fri, 24 Dec 1999 21:19:12 -0600 (CST) Date: Fri, 24 Dec 1999 21:19:12 -0600 (CST) From: marc rassbach To: Brandon DeYoung Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 36 GB IDE Hard Drives In-Reply-To: <000801bf4db2$18798dc0$333c5d18@austin.rr.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org This seems to be a hardware problem. If you go to maxtor's site http://www.maxtor.com/technology/infobulls/13027.html they mention how older BIOSes are non-functional. I just decided to use IBM 25 gig drives and live with that. :-) On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, Brandon DeYoung wrote: > Are hard drives larger than 32 GB supported by Free BSD. I've had both the 3.3 and 3.4 releases fail during the make New FS portion of the install, when installing on a Maxtor 36 GB drive. > > ~Brandon > brandon@schoolpeople.net > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message