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Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1998 04:41:26 -0500 (EST)
From: "Joe \"Marcus\" Clarke" <marcus@jaguar.ir.miami.edu>
Subject: Re: Help - 10.1 GB IDE disk
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To: Nick Sayer <nsayer@quack.kfu.com>
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FreeBSD-stable supports disks over 8 GB.  You can CVSup the sources, or
download the latest 2.2SNAP from
ftp://current.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD...or wait until November 30 when
2.2.8 gets released.

Joe Clarke

On Sun, 15 Nov 1998, Nick Sayer wrote:

> I am running 2.2.7-RELEASE. I have a 10.1GB IDE drive. The BIOS sees the
> whole disk, but FreeBSD reports:
> 
> wdc0: unit 0 (wd0): <WDC AC310100B>
> wd0: 8063MB (16514064 sectors), 16383 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S
> 
> I labeled the disk in the 'dangerously dedicated' way. The disk
> manufacturer's web site says that OSes have to understand some sort
> of BIOS extension in order to work with drives bigger than 8.4G.
> 
> Is there a fix or will I always be a gig and a half short?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
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