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Date:      Fri, 31 Jul 1998 09:57:43 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Brooks Davis <brdavis@orion.ac.hmc.edu>
To:        "Randy A. Katz" <randyk@ccsales.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Larger then 8.5GB IDE Support - 2.2 stable
Message-ID:  <Pine.SOL.4.02.9807310956070.28642-100000@orion.ac.hmc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980731080248.034bcbc0@ccsales.com>

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On Fri, 31 Jul 1998, Randy A. Katz wrote:

> Is support for the larger IDE drives still in 2.2 stable? I loaded it up on
> a 4.5GB primary drive and tried to add a 11.5GB secondary and it showed the
> partition as 8.xGB...any ideas???

It's probably a BIOS problem.  See the following white paper at IBM:

http://www.storage.ibm.com/hardsoft/diskdrdl/library/8.4gb.htm

-- Brooks


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