Date: Thu, 06 Aug 1998 01:34:20 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: "Sergey S. Kosyakov" <ks@itp.ac.ru> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IBM 16 GB IDE HDD Message-ID: <199808060834.BAA01473@antipodes.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 06 Aug 1998 12:26:10 %2B0400." <XFMail.980806122833.ks@itp.ac.ru>
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> >> how can I use the full capacity of my IBM DTTA-351680 16GB IDE drive?
> >> "wd" driver can see only 8GB, and manual drive geometry installation
> >> in fdisk did not change it - my FreeBSD-3.0-980311 can see only 8GB.
> >
> >See the 'wd' manpage for the option to use LBA addressing for disks > 8GB.
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> There are nothing about it.
You're obviously more out of date than I thought. From a more recent
wd.4:
0x1000 Use LBA addressing instead of the default CHS addressing.
> BTW, I found the way via "by hand" slice/partition edition (not using LBA).
Hmm. I think that you will still hit problems at the 8GB mark, but you
may have removed the only safety barrier.
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