From owner-freebsd-current Tue May 5 23:34:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA22745 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 5 May 1998 23:34:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: (from sos@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA22736; Tue, 5 May 1998 23:34:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sos) Message-Id: <199805060634.XAA22736@hub.freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How do I use IDE HD. more than 8G In-Reply-To: <000d01bd78ab$13baec80$4d0c758c@wing.cc.nsysu.edu.tw> from Tony Lynn at "May 6, 98 12:54:39 pm" To: wing@cc.nsysu.edu.tw (Tony Lynn) Date: Tue, 5 May 1998 23:34:48 -0700 (PDT) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG From: sos@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-to: sos@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In reply to Tony Lynn who wrote: >Hello all: >I've got a new HD (Quamtum B.F 12G) and trying to use entire disk to run CURRENT. >But , the boot disk can only allocate 8G disk space , I've tried to edit >geometry , bot I can't label disk space over 8G. >So , what should I do to get the whole 12G work under CURRENT ? You need a SNAP newer than 980426, for this to work. Set your drive in the BIOS to LBA mode and then modify (in the boot configurator) the wdc{0|1} flags to 0xb0ffb0ff. That will enable LBA mode etc. I just commited a fix to current yesterday, that allows normal CHS mode to be used with large disks, so you could waoit until the next SNAP has been produced on current.freebsd.org. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Soren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team So much code to hack -- so little time. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message