Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1998 04:41:26 -0500 (EST) From: "Joe \"Marcus\" Clarke" <marcus@jaguar.ir.miami.edu> To: Nick Sayer <nsayer@quack.kfu.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help - 10.1 GB IDE disk Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.05.9811150439440.19442-100000@jaguar.ir.miami.edu> In-Reply-To: <199811150838.AAA00459@quack.kfu.com>
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FreeBSD-stable supports disks over 8 GB. You can CVSup the sources, or download the latest 2.2SNAP from ftp://current.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD...or wait until November 30 when 2.2.8 gets released. Joe Clarke On Sun, 15 Nov 1998, Nick Sayer wrote: > I am running 2.2.7-RELEASE. I have a 10.1GB IDE drive. The BIOS sees the > whole disk, but FreeBSD reports: > > wdc0: unit 0 (wd0): <WDC AC310100B> > wd0: 8063MB (16514064 sectors), 16383 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S > > I labeled the disk in the 'dangerously dedicated' way. The disk > manufacturer's web site says that OSes have to understand some sort > of BIOS extension in order to work with drives bigger than 8.4G. > > Is there a fix or will I always be a gig and a half short? > > Thanks in advance. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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