Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 13:55:47 +0800 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Caninet Administration <admin@caninet.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 12 G hard drive and FreeBSD Message-ID: <19980423135547.45934@papillon.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199804211959.PAA03545@caninet.com>; from Caninet Administration on Tue, Apr 21, 1998 at 03:33:49PM -0400 References: <199804211959.PAA03545@caninet.com>
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On Tue, 21 April 1998 at 15:33:49 -0400, Caninet Administration wrote: > Hello, > > I have just started to use FreeBSD (have been using Digital Unix for about > 4 years) and have installed it on PII 233 with 128M RAM. System is working > good, but I like to run a second news server on this machine and have just > got 4 BIGFOOT TX 12 G hard disks as well. > > My problem is that I can't figure out how to let FreeBSD know that it is 12 > G drives and not 8 G. I tried disklabel and editor, also have tried visual > configuration but nothing worked. I even tried to make two dos partitions > on one drive and FreeBSD is still showing only 8 G. > > Why? > > Does FreeBSD support 12 G or higher than 8 G IDE or SCSI? There was a problem which cropped up with exactly this drive (is it the first generally available IDE > 8 GB?). A patch was posted, and it worked, but I'm currently travelling and don't have it available. Check the mail archives, and if that doesn't work, send a brief question to -hackers. Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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