From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 11 15:53:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA21587 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:53:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from peloton.physics.montana.edu (peloton.physics.montana.edu [153.90.192.177]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA21582 for ; Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:53:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu) Received: from localhost (brett@localhost) by peloton.physics.montana.edu (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id QAA15932; Tue, 11 Aug 1998 16:52:38 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu) Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 16:52:38 -0600 (MDT) From: Brett Taylor To: Blake Freeburg cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Large drives (>8GB) In-Reply-To: <199808112052.PAA16441@phydeaux.mrdata.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, > I have a gigabyte motherboard which recognizes the new maxtor > 11GB drive that I have stuck in server. So far, so good, but the drive > cannot be configured greater than 8GB. What version of FreeBSD are you using? I believe -current can see disks bigger than 8GB now and that the fix recently entered -stable (it was slated to make it into 2.2.7 but got missed somehow IIRC). Brett ************************************************************* Brett Taylor brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu http://peloton.physics.montana.edu/brett/ "The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart." - Iris Murdoch, "The Red and the Green" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message