From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 20 21:12:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA29615 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 21:12:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from granite.sentex.net (granite.sentex.ca [199.212.134.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA29601 for ; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 21:12:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from ospf-mdt.sentex.net (ospf-mdt.sentex.net [205.211.164.81]) by granite.sentex.net (8.8.6/8.6.9) with SMTP id AAA17325; Fri, 21 Aug 1998 00:10:45 -0400 (EDT) From: mike@sentex.net (Mike Tancsa) To: stevek@guide.chi.il.us (Steve Kacsmark) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Extremely Large ATA drives and BSD Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 04:15:20 GMT Message-ID: <35dcf3ee.7086910@mail.sentex.net> References: <3.0.3.32.19980821220620.006e0b80@pop.interaccess.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19980821220620.006e0b80@pop.interaccess.com> X-Mailer: Forte Agent .99e/32.227 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 21 Aug 1998 22:06:20 -0500, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: >FreeBSD 2.2.7 recognizes my Maxtor 11.5GB harddrive as a 8.4GB drive.... >Is this a limitation of FreeBSD or an error on my part? You need to upgrade to 2.2.7 stable. The drivers were not ready in time for inclusion in the 2.2.7 release aparently. Use CVSUP to download the source tree and rebuild your OS. Its fairly straight forward and there are excellent docs online. ---Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message