From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 11 19:28:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA28377 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 11 Aug 1998 19:28:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from tasam.com (tasam.com [198.232.144.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA28361 for ; Tue, 11 Aug 1998 19:28:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andriss@argate.com) Received: from localhost (andriss@localhost) by tasam.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id VAA01406 for ; Tue, 11 Aug 1998 21:27:43 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 21:27:43 -0500 (EST) From: Andriss X-Sender: andriss@tasam.com To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Large drives (>8GB) In-Reply-To: <19980812104314.Z22754@freebie.lemis.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 Tuesday, 11 August 1998 at 15:52:11 -0500, Blake Freeburg wrote: >> Hello FreeBSDers... >> >> 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. >> >> Did I miss something? I have tried to set the values for in the >> sysinstall program, so any info would be appreciated... > >The changes for >8GB didn't make it into 2.2.7. They're in -stable >now. > >Greg Does it mean that when I get my 2.2.7 CD's, they won't be able to read drives bigger than 8 gig without applying patches? Please give me any additional information on this, if you can. Thanks, Andriss To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message