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Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 17:41:04 +0100
From: Craig Wilson <craig@natsoft.com.au>
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Subject: IDE Drives Greater Than 2048MBytes
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I am attempting to install FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE on a Pentium 150MHz
with a 3Gig IDE Hard Drive.

When you opt to run the bad block scan it fails at the 2048 MByte point
with every block past there being reported as an error. This happens
whether the drive is in LBA or NORMAL mode.
Will FreeBSD support a partition over 2048MBytes in length, or is this
just a problem with the bad block scanning program?

Also if you scan an IDE hard drive over 512MByte without LBA mode the
bad block table gets written above the 512MByte boundry (1024cylinder)
making the drive unbootable. Is there a way to get the bad track table
to reside below cylinder 1024?

Regards Craig.