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Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1998 10:22:13 -0700 (PDT)
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To: Brooks Davis <brdavis@orion.ac.hmc.edu>
cc: "Randy A. Katz" <randyk@ccsales.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Larger then 8.5GB IDE Support - 2.2 stable
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I've got the same problem, but my bios shows the actual size of the drive.

Michael

On Fri, 31 Jul 1998, Brooks Davis wrote:

> On Fri, 31 Jul 1998, Randy A. Katz wrote:
> 
> > Is support for the larger IDE drives still in 2.2 stable? I loaded it up on
> > a 4.5GB primary drive and tried to add a 11.5GB secondary and it showed the
> > partition as 8.xGB...any ideas???
> 
> It's probably a BIOS problem.  See the following white paper at IBM:
> 
> http://www.storage.ibm.com/hardsoft/diskdrdl/library/8.4gb.htm
> 
> -- Brooks
> 
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