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Date:      Tue, 4 Jan 2000 16:38:42 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Mark Daniel Szlaga <mszlaga@szlaga.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Large HDD Support
Message-ID:  <20000104163842.H11240@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10001032339170.21059-100000@wormhole.szlaga.net>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10001032339170.21059-100000@wormhole.szlaga.net>

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On Monday,  3 January 2000 at 23:51:03 -0500, Mark Daniel Szlaga wrote:
> Greetings,
>    Just curious to see how to set up and configure a new IBM 27.3GB hdd...
> Does the FreeBSD boot loader have the same 1023 cyl limit that LILO and
> most DOS boot loaders have?

No.

>    Also, for some odd reason if I make one large partition (approx 27GB)
> going into the Express setup, custom package installation causes a SIG11.
> The hardware is good.  Dunno though if the download might be corrupted or
> my setup is bad.  Any suggestions?

We suspect a bug in the "old" IDE driver (which is still the standard
for released versions of FreeBSD) which might cause this kind of
problem, though so far we had thought it only happened on drives of
more than 27.5 GB; you must be just on the borderline.  It seems that
creating partitions of less than 27 GB helps.  This problem no longer
exists in the "new" IDE driver which will be available with FreeBSD
4.1.

Greg
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