From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Dec 24 21:39:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from schooner.svjava.com (schooner.svjava.com [204.75.228.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6888F14F47 for ; Fri, 24 Dec 1999 21:39:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kozowski@svjava.com) Received: (from kozowski@localhost) by schooner.svjava.com (8.9.1a/svjava.com) id VAA15803; Fri, 24 Dec 1999 21:39:40 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 24 Dec 1999 21:39:40 -0800 From: Eric Kozowski To: marc rassbach Cc: Brandon DeYoung , freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 36 GB IDE Hard Drives Message-ID: <19991224213939.A15752@schooner.svjava.com> References: <000801bf4db2$18798dc0$333c5d18@austin.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.7i In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Dec 24, 1999 at 09:19:12PM -0600, marc rassbach wrote: > 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 ran into the same problem w/ a maxtor 36gb ide drive under 3.4-stable. i upgraded my bios per maxtor's instructions, but it still wouldn't format. i ended up creating two partitions. > 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