From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 11 13:20:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from finch-post-10.mail.demon.net (finch-post-10.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80B87152C9 for ; Thu, 11 Mar 1999 13:20:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marko@uk.radan.com) Received: from [158.152.75.22] (helo=uk.radan.com) by finch-post-10.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 10LCrm-0005dM-0A; Thu, 11 Mar 1999 21:19:43 +0000 Organisation: Radan Computational Ltd., Bath, UK. Phone: +44-1225-320320 Fax: +44-1225-320311 Received: from marder-1. (rasnt-1 [193.114.228.211]) by uk.radan.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with ESMTP id VAA03990; Thu, 11 Mar 1999 21:19:00 GMT Received: (from marko@localhost) by marder-1. (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA00303; Thu, 11 Mar 1999 21:16:20 GMT (envelope-from marko) Message-ID: <19990311211620.C231@localhost> Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 21:16:20 +0000 From: Mark Ovens To: Ben Laurie , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Big IDE disks? References: <36E80304.C99C501E@algroup.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <36E80304.C99C501E@algroup.co.uk>; from Ben Laurie on Thu, Mar 11, 1999 at 05:53:08PM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Mar 11, 1999 at 05:53:08PM +0000, Ben Laurie wrote: > I'm trying to install an 18 GB EIDE disk on FreeBSD 2.2.7. The BIOS > concedes that it is big, after I enable "S.M.A.R.T." (whatever that is), > but fdisk refuses to believe it is any larger than 8 GB. Is there a way > to make this work? > Yes. You have to u/g to 2.2.8 or later. Support for >8GB disks was introduced in 2.2.8 -- Way to go Eddie! Eddie Irvine, Winner, 1999 Australian GP FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~markov _______________________________________________________________ Mark Ovens, CNC Apps Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd. Bath UK CAD/CAM solutions for Sheetmetal Working Industry mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message