From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 12 3:16:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from eastwood.aldigital.algroup.co.uk (eastwood.aldigital.algroup.co.uk [194.128.162.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A85114C42 for ; Fri, 12 Mar 1999 03:16:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ben@algroup.co.uk) Received: from freeby.ben.algroup.co.uk (freeby.ben.algroup.co.uk [193.133.15.6]) by eastwood.aldigital.algroup.co.uk (8.8.8/8.6.12) with ESMTP id LAA11622; Fri, 12 Mar 1999 11:15:53 GMT Received: from algroup.co.uk (naughty.ben.algroup.co.uk [193.133.15.107]) by freeby.ben.algroup.co.uk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id LAA05374; Fri, 12 Mar 1999 11:16:04 GMT Message-ID: <36E8F75F.7DC11DBB@algroup.co.uk> Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 11:15:43 +0000 From: Ben Laurie Organization: A.L. Group plc X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.08 [en] (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Ovens Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Big IDE disks? References: <36E80304.C99C501E@algroup.co.uk> <19990311211620.C231@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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