From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 24 05:16:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA07987 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 24 Oct 1998 05:16:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cal007109.student.utwente.nl (cal007109.student.utwente.nl [130.89.221.199]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA07982 for ; Sat, 24 Oct 1998 05:16:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from edwin@woudt.nl) Received: from cal007107.student.utwente.nl ([130.89.221.197]) by cal007109.student.utwente.nl with smtp (Exim 2.05 #1) id 0zX2cV-00014n-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 24 Oct 1998 14:16:35 +0200 Message-ID: <000c01bdff48$44db68c0$c5dd5982@cal007107.student.utwente.nl> From: "Edwin Woudt" To: Subject: 4GB harddisk / old bios / 3.0-release = only 2GB HD? Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 14:17:29 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.2106.4 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have an old computer, (the bios doesn't support harddisks larger than 2GB) and I installed freebsd 3.0-release on it. In windows, which the computer was previously used for I could use the whole 4GB by using a seperate program from the drive manufacturer (WD). But this program doesn't work with FreeBSD, it only sees 2GB. Am I doing something wrong or should I use something else? Edwin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message