From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Aug 6 01:35:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA24577 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 01:35:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (castles231.castles.com [208.214.165.231]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA24567 for ; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 01:35:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@antipodes.cdrom.com) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by antipodes.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id BAA01473; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 01:34:21 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199808060834.BAA01473@antipodes.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: "Sergey S. Kosyakov" cc: Mike Smith , hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IBM 16 GB IDE HDD In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 06 Aug 1998 12:26:10 +0400." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 06 Aug 1998 01:34:20 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > >> 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. > > > > 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 You're obviously more out of date than I thought.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. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message