From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG  Thu Sep 16 01:38:33 2004
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2B6516A4CE
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Thu, 16 Sep 2004 01:38:32 +0000 (GMT)
Received: from ns1.tiadon.com (SMTP.tiadon.com [69.27.132.161])
	by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6C6943D54
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Thu, 16 Sep 2004 01:38:32 +0000 (GMT)	(envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz)
Received: from [69.27.131.0] ([69.27.131.0]) by ns1.tiadon.com with Microsoft
	SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.0);	 Wed, 15 Sep 2004 20:38:20 -0500
Message-ID: <4148EE48.4090405@daleco.biz>
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 20:37:12 -0500
From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz>
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040712
X-Accept-Language: en-us, en
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: dave <dave@jagoan.com>
References: <000501c49b87$21821540$0701a8c0@ritta>
In-Reply-To: <000501c49b87$21821540$0701a8c0@ritta>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-OriginalArrivalTime: 16 Sep 2004 01:38:31.0687 (UTC)
	FILETIME=[DF931970:01C49B8D]
cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: question
X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1
Precedence: list
List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>,
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>,
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 01:38:33 -0000

dave wrote:

>Hello,
>I'm new in freebsd..and want to ask something.
>1. Can freebsd handle more than 80 giga Harddisk?
>    (maybe I want to use 100-200 Giga HD for data)
>2. If I plugin a new harddisk, can be outomatic detect or I use do manual
>configuration?
>
>Thank you,
>
>best Regards,
>Dave
>  
>

1.  Of course.  Recent discussion on some list of another
I'm reading is talking about breaking the 2TB limit, so
100G is no problem.  I just added a 200GB WD HDD to
my "desktop" unit yesterday AAMOF...

2.  The kernel will find it.  However, you must partition
and label it yourself (not that this is uncommon ... if you're
using Windows, you've still gotta use fdisk and format IIRC);
then you give it a mount point.  Good documentation in the
"Storage" chapter of the handbook <www.freebsd.org/handbook>.

HTH,

Kevin Kinsey