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Date:      Tue, 11 Aug 1998 16:52:38 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu>
To:        Blake Freeburg <blakef@mrdata.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Large drives (>8GB)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980811165126.15604D-100000@peloton.physics.montana.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199808112052.PAA16441@phydeaux.mrdata.com>

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Hi,

> 	I have a gigabyte motherboard which recognizes the new maxtor
> 11GB drive that I have stuck in server.  So far, so good, but the drive
> cannot be configured greater than 8GB. 

What version of FreeBSD are you using?  I believe -current can see disks
bigger than 8GB now and that the fix recently entered -stable (it was
slated to make it into 2.2.7 but got missed somehow IIRC).   

Brett
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