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. -- http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there." - Indira Gandhi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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