From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Aug 2 19:02:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA10670 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Sun, 2 Aug 1998 19:02:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from enya.hilink.com.au (enya.hilink.com.au [203.8.14.116]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA10665 for ; Sun, 2 Aug 1998 19:02:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from danny@enya.hilink.com.au) Received: from localhost (danny@localhost) by enya.hilink.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id MAA10555; Mon, 3 Aug 1998 12:01:26 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from danny@enya.hilink.com.au) Date: Mon, 3 Aug 1998 12:01:26 +1000 (EST) From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" Reply-To: "Daniel O'Callaghan" To: "Randy A. Katz" cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Larger then 8.5GB IDE Support - 2.2 stable In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980731080248.034bcbc0@ccsales.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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??? The patches in PR 6866 apply fine, except you should read the notes which were added to the patch. I have a -stable system running with these patches and just need to find the time to commit them. I also need to ask about the wdc flags so appropriate instructions can be put somewhere. If you want the patches, I can send them to you. I'd be interested in feedback before I commit to -stable. I did want to get them into 2.2.7, but missed the boat. 2.2.8 is a definite. Danny To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message