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Date:      Fri, 12 Mar 1999 11:15:43 +0000
From:      Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
To:        Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Big IDE disks?
Message-ID:  <36E8F75F.7DC11DBB@algroup.co.uk>
References:  <36E80304.C99C501E@algroup.co.uk> <19990311211620.C231@localhost>

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Mark Ovens wrote:
> 
> 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

Great, thanks. I've never upgraded a FreeBSD system before, and I can't
seem to find any docco for how to do it - what's the procedure?

Cheers,

Ben.

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