From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 31 15:20:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA12050 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 31 Jul 1998 15:20:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA12043 for ; Fri, 31 Jul 1998 15:20:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA15293; Fri, 31 Jul 1998 15:20:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1998 15:20:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: vwayne@xnet.com cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help Needed In-Reply-To: <35C2150A.74A8@xnet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 31 Jul 1998 vwayne@xnet.com wrote: > Can anyone their tell me why freebsd 2.2.6 will not see drives larger > than 8.5 gig? I just installed 3 11.5 gig drives and in cmos it says the > right amount but infreebsd it does not. Is there a way to have freebsd > see these drives? Upgrade to CURRENT. The IDE code in 2.2.x doesn't recognize more than 8gb on IDE drives, but the CURRENT code has been patched. Don't know why this hasn't been backported to STABLE ... Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message