From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 18 17:52:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA26969 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 18 May 1998 17:52:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from marine.sonic.net (marine.sonic.net [208.201.224.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA26891 for ; Mon, 18 May 1998 17:52:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lfloyd@sonic.net) Received: (qmail 12160 invoked from network); 19 May 1998 00:53:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO sub.sonic.net) (208.201.224.8) by marine.sonic.net with SMTP; 19 May 1998 00:53:14 -0000 Received: from sonic.net (d171.pm12.sonic.net [208.201.230.171]) by sub.sonic.net (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA17935; Mon, 18 May 1998 17:52:11 -0700 X-envelope-info: Message-ID: <3560D8B8.55DF025@sonic.net> Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 17:56:24 -0700 From: "L. Floyd" Reply-To: lfloyd@sonic.net Organization: MonkeyPuzzle Solutions X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (Win95; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug White , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installation doesn't see unused portion of new HD References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug White wrote: > > Wonder if you need to turn LBA off. > I wondered that too, but I was concerned with the issue behind keeping the root partition within the first 1024 cylinders (I'm looking in Lehey's book, 1st edition). Perhaps that doesn't apply anymore due to the advancement of BIOSs? > > I would suggest getting the WD. I agree. As I said before, I had no trouble installing/using FreeBSD with the previous WD drive. > > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Thanks for your help... I think I'm off to the store (Wednesday) to swap this drive out. - Larry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message