Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 18:02:23 -0800 (PST) From: Bob Lash <bob@wbs.net> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 12.0 GB Quantum Bigfoot TX IDE seen as 8.4 GB Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.91.980327171923.29420D-100000@webchat2.wbs.net> In-Reply-To: <9378.891038800@time.cdrom.com>
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> What happens if you turn LBA mode off in your BIOS/IDE controller > setup? > > Jordan With LBA off, BIOS defaults to CHS, and as previously mentioned shows 23361 cyl/16 hd/63 sec on the BIOS display (still 12 GIG), but feeBSD seems to max out at 16383 cyl/16 hd/63 sec (still adds up to 8.4 GIG)... Interestingly, I found this item (from Aug 96) that suggests there may be an 8 GIG limit... "With BIOS LBA, the hard disk size limitation is virtually removed (well, pushed up to 8 Gigabytes anyway). If you have an LBA BIOS, you can put FreeBSD or any OS anywhere you want and not hit the 1024 cylinder limit." -Jay Richmond /jayrich@sysc.com / 6 August 1996 Installing and Using FreeBSD With Other Operating Systems (http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/multios/multios.html) Bob Lash bob@wbs.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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