From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Nov 26 01:46:12 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id BAA04468 for hardware-outgoing; Wed, 26 Nov 1997 01:46:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware) Received: from wall.jhs.no_domain (vector.muc.ditec.de [194.120.126.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id BAA04444; Wed, 26 Nov 1997 01:46:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhs@wall.jhs.no_domain) Received: from wall.jhs.no_domain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wall.jhs.no_domain (8.8.5/8.6.9) with ESMTP id WAA00949; Mon, 24 Nov 1997 22:15:36 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <199711242115.WAA00949@wall.jhs.no_domain> To: Kent Hauser cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: large IDE disks From: "Julian H. Stacey" Reply-To: "Julian H. Stacey" X-Address: Holz Strasse 27d, 80469 Munich, Germany X-Web: http://www.freebsd.org/~jhs/ (including PGP key) X-Tel: +49.89.268616 X-Fax: +49.89.2608126 X-Data: +49.89.26023276 X-Company: Vector Systems Ltd, Unix & Internet Consultants X-Mailer: EXMH-1.6.9 + FreeBSD-2.2.2 (Unix) In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 20 Nov 1997 10:39:01 EST." <199711201539.KAA14531@rtp.tfd.com> Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 21:15:34 +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, Reference: > From: Kent Hauser > Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 10:39:01 -0500 (EST) > Message-id: <199711201539.KAA14531@rtp.tfd.com> Kent Hauser wrote: > > I need some advice. > > I'm putting a 2.2 GB IDE disk in my laptop. The problem is the > bad sector information. With the straightforward approach, you > can only store 126 bad sectors. A lot more than that were found. > > My question is: how's this done? How do you get freebsd to > handle big disks? > > Please respond directly as I'm not on the list. Thanks. A friend (Terry Carroll, Munich (still not on the net) told me he used fdisk to carve his disc into 4 slices first, then he ran bad144 * 4. Ive no idea if this is valid or not, no doubt other wiser people will comment :-) Julian -- Julian H. Stacey jhs@freebsd.org http://www.freebsd.org/~jhs/