Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 12:08:27 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, "Jeff Z. Chi" <zchi@hal.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 3.0 Message-ID: <19980819120827.D13676@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9808181518570.19286-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>; from Doug White on Tue, Aug 18, 1998 at 03:19:34PM -0700 References: <35D9BCE0.47D0AD5@hal.com> <Pine.BSF.4.00.9808181518570.19286-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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On Tuesday, 18 August 1998 at 15:19:34 -0700, Doug White wrote: > > On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Jeff Z. Chi wrote: > >> I know FreeBSD 2.2 cannot handle EIDE drives greater than 500 MB. >> As instructed in the book, we have to partition it into 2 boot >> partitions, one for win and one for FreeBSD. > > That is a limitation of your system BIOS, not FreBSD. > >> I am wonder if the upcoming FreeBSD 3.0 still has that problem. > > On your system, yes. I'm not sure I understand what you're saying here, Doug. There *have* been problems with IDE disks with more than 8 GB under 2.X, and they've only just been resolved (after 2.2.7-RELEASE). Jeff, if you have a disk like that, you should upgrade to 2.2-STABLE. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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