Date: Sun, 21 Jul 1996 12:29:32 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org, jon@vcnet.com Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2940 and large drives Message-ID: <199607210229.MAA20673@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>>Thanks to those who helped... though no one's suggested a straightforward >>way to partition up new drives. Linux has cfdisk, but I guess I'm not in >>Kansas anymore, Toto. Linux fdisk should continue to work. This leaves the simpler problem of labeling the FreeBSD slice. >You have to know what the right geometry to use is since, unlike Linux, >the individual device drivers don't export information about the BIOS >goemetry. I'll be the first to admit that the FreeBSD fdisk is not as >easy to use as it could be. Individual device drivers don't export it because they don't know it. Bruce
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