Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 07:24:53 -0800 From: Christopher Kelley <bsd@kelleycows.com> To: Mike Jeays <mj001@rogers.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unable to install on large hard drive Message-ID: <43887E45.5010401@kelleycows.com> In-Reply-To: <1133009970.95177.5.camel@chaucer.jeays.ca> References: <20051124120055.11A4F16A41F@hub.freebsd.org> <4388103A.9010602@kelleycows.com> <1133009970.95177.5.camel@chaucer.jeays.ca>
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Mike Jeays wrote: >On Fri, 2005-11-25 at 23:35 -0800, Christopher Kelley wrote: > > >>Up until now, I've installed FreeBSD on smaller drives (< 15 gig), but I >>recently had to replace the HD in my windows machine, so I got a larger >>hard drive with the idea of installing fBSD on it as well and dual >>booting that machine. >> [snip, snip] >>I did look through the manual and searched a bit on google, but I'm not >>having much luck finding even suggestions of what to try. Does anyone >>have any suggestions? >> >>Christopher >> >>_______________________________________________ >>freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >>http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >>To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> >> > >I reported a similar problem with a Maxtor D740X-SL 40GB drive a few >weeks ago. I cannot get this drive to work properly with recent >versions of FreeBSD, and get the same error during installation. The >disk seems to work fine with Fedora and Ubuntu. I made it work by >disabling DMA, but the performance was awful. My motherboard is an ASUS >P4S533. > > Hmmm ... well, I already have a few fBSD installs, maybe I'll try Ubuntu or something for the dual-boot. Never hurts to try something new. Christopher
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