From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 12 6:44:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from finch-post-11.mail.demon.net (finch-post-11.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E7A6152DF for ; Fri, 12 Mar 1999 06:44:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marko@uk.radan.com) Received: from [158.152.75.22] (helo=uk.radan.com) by finch-post-11.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 10LTAS-000CJT-0B; Fri, 12 Mar 1999 14:44:05 +0000 Organisation: Radan Computational Ltd., Bath, UK. Phone: +44-1225-320320 Fax: +44-1225-320311 Received: from beavis.uk.radan.com (beavis [193.114.228.122]) by uk.radan.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with SMTP id OAA03242; Fri, 12 Mar 1999 14:43:44 GMT Received: from uk.radan.com (gppsun4) by beavis.uk.radan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA09111; Fri, 12 Mar 99 14:43:42 GMT Message-Id: <36E9280A.1447019B@uk.radan.com> Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 14:43:22 +0000 From: Mark Ovens Organization: Radan Computational Ltd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en-GB Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Ben Laurie Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Big IDE disks? References: <36E80304.C99C501E@algroup.co.uk> <19990311211620.C231@localhost> <36E8F75F.7DC11DBB@algroup.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ben Laurie wrote: > > 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? > I take it you mean from source? I've never done that, I always use the CDs. Take a look on http://www.freebsd.org/ there'll be the necessary info there. > 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 -- FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~markov _______________________________________________________________ Mark Ovens, CNC Apps Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd. Bath UK CAD/CAM solutions for Sheetmetal Working Industry mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message