From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 3 18: 6:46 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EC6337B401 for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 18:06:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from falcon.midgard.homeip.net (h76n3fls20o913.telia.com [213.67.148.76]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EBF7C43E4A for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 18:06:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ertr1013@student.uu.se) Received: (qmail 55044 invoked by uid 1001); 4 Feb 2003 02:06:40 -0000 Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 03:06:40 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson To: Larry Rosenman Cc: Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net, bhyde@pobox.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 200Gig disk shrinks to 124 upon install Message-ID: <20030204020639.GA55010@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> Mail-Followup-To: Larry Rosenman , Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net, bhyde@pobox.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <31133.192.85.47.2.1044318316.squirrel@new.host.name> <15780000.1044322985@lerlaptop.lerctr.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <15780000.1044322985@lerlaptop.lerctr.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 07:43:05PM -0600, Larry Rosenman wrote: > > > --On Monday, February 03, 2003 16:25:16 -0800 Kevin Stevens > wrote: > > >>I casually installed a 200 Gig dis on a 4.3-stable freebsd system. I > >>quickly followed the directions in > >>http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks- > >>adding.html section "12.3.2.2 Dedicated". df -g now reports that the > >>resulting disk is only 124 Gig, so I'm sad and confused. I expected > >>some shrinkage, but not quite so much. ideas? > > > >How current is your motherboard? If it doesn't support the ATA-6 spec > >there's a limit of 120-140GB (don't remember the details. > LBA(aka LBA28) is limited to 128G (Base 2 GB)/137G (Base 10 GB). > > LBA48 is the new standard. Entirely apart from the motherboard FreeBSD did not supporte LBA48 until 4.5-RELEASE. This means that with FreeBSD-4.3 you are limited to 128G when using IDE disks. Upgrading to 4.5 or later might help. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message