From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jun 2 0:46:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C761037B74E for ; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 00:46:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@wantadilla.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA26251; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 17:15:50 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 17:15:50 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: lists@security.za.net Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 40gig IDE drives? Message-ID: <20000602171550.O22978@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday, 2 June 2000 at 8:52:46 +0200, lists@security.za.net wrote: > Anyone know how to get a 40gig IDE drive working under FreeBSD? It > picks it up as having 79000 odd sectors and says that the geometary > is wrong, and it doesnt work. Have you set LBA mode? Note that the wd driver has problems with partitions (not drives) greater than about 27 GB. The ata driver has no such problems. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message