From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Dec 24 18:11:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (castles551.castles.com [208.214.165.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F55514D5D for ; Fri, 24 Dec 1999 18:11:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA17428; Fri, 24 Dec 1999 18:15:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199912250215.SAA17428@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: "Brandon DeYoung" Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 36 GB IDE Hard Drives In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 23 Dec 1999 19:56:27 CST." <000801bf4db2$18798dc0$333c5d18@austin.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 24 Dec 1999 18:15:39 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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. There shouldn't be any issues with large drives, no. Since you don't provide any details to qualify "fail", it's hard to guess where your problems might lie. (The 'BIOS' supposition already aired seems fairly unlikely, since FreeBSD doesn't use the BIOS at the point you're discussing.) -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message