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From: David Banning <sky_tracker@yahoo.com>
To: Carl Delsey <cdelsey@home.com>
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Subject: Re: Fdisk recognizes 30GB hard drive as 2GB.
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I have an older pentium 100 machine and I know mine, and similar
machines have a problem bios that does not recognize
large drives. My specific problem only showed up with dos
fdisk however, not the FreeBSD one.

On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 06:04:50PM -0700, Carl Delsey wrote:
> I am trying to install FreeBSD 4.3 onto a 32GB hard drive, but fdisk keeps
> thinking it is a 2GB drive.  I've seen a number of messages in the archives
> for this mailing list of people having the same problem, but I couldn't find
> any solutions. Does anybody know if a solution to this problem has been
> found or not?
> 
> Thanks,
> Carl
> 
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