Date: Mon, 06 Dec 1999 06:37:14 -0800 From: intrico@pacbell.net To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Large Hard Disks Message-ID: <NDBBJHGEHKFPLCHNOLINCEJACAAA.intrico@pacbell.net>
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I am attempting to install FreeBSD 3.3 Stable on a Maxtor 36.5 GB Utra DMA hard disk. I would like FreeBSD to be the sole operating system on the disk. After going through setup, the filesystems seem to be created okay, but as soon as it attempts to begin extracting files to the disk, the installation quits with a "panic: ufs_dirbad : bad dir". My motherboard is an ASUS P2B-F with the bios upgraded to the latest version which does support disks larger than 32 GB. I originally tried installing FreeBSD on the disk while it was new and it failed with the panic string that I gave above. I then [Microsoft]FDISKed, formatted with FAT32 and tried installing windows 98 alone on the disk and it worked, then tried installing Windows NT workstation 4.0 alone on the disk with NTFS - and it worked as well. I also tried an 8.5 GB Maxtor and FreeBSD installed sucessfully on it. So now, I'm seeking answers to these three questions... 1) Is FreeBSD incompatible with UDMA? 2) Is FreeBSD itself able to handle IDE drives as large as 36.5 GB, and if not, what is the maximum disk size that it will support? 3) If FreeBSD is compatible with UDMA, and is able to handle IDE disks as large as 36.5 GB, what would most likely be causing the panic error given above? Thanks in advance to anyone who might be able to help reach a solution here. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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