From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Mar 27 18:02:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA09338 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Fri, 27 Mar 1998 18:02:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from webchat2.wbs.net (ws3.wbs.net [207.88.172.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA09320 for ; Fri, 27 Mar 1998 18:02:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bob@wbs.net) Received: (from bob@localhost) by webchat2.wbs.net (8.8.6/8.8.6) id SAA30285; Fri, 27 Mar 1998 18:02:23 -0800 Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 18:02:23 -0800 (PST) From: Bob Lash To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 12.0 GB Quantum Bigfoot TX IDE seen as 8.4 GB In-Reply-To: <9378.891038800@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > What happens if you turn LBA mode off in your BIOS/IDE controller > setup? > > Jordan With LBA off, BIOS defaults to CHS, and as previously mentioned shows 23361 cyl/16 hd/63 sec on the BIOS display (still 12 GIG), but feeBSD seems to max out at 16383 cyl/16 hd/63 sec (still adds up to 8.4 GIG)... Interestingly, I found this item (from Aug 96) that suggests there may be an 8 GIG limit... "With BIOS LBA, the hard disk size limitation is virtually removed (well, pushed up to 8 Gigabytes anyway). If you have an LBA BIOS, you can put FreeBSD or any OS anywhere you want and not hit the 1024 cylinder limit." -Jay Richmond /jayrich@sysc.com / 6 August 1996 Installing and Using FreeBSD With Other Operating Systems (http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/multios/multios.html) Bob Lash bob@wbs.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message