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Date:      Fri, 9 Oct 1998 08:26:36 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Bryce Newall <data@dreamhaven.net>
To:        "Shishir K. Ramam" <sramam@cstp.umkc.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: help installing WD hard drive...
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.96.981009082524.19668W-100000@ds9.dreamhaven.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.95.981009094022.592F-100000@zeus>

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On Fri, 9 Oct 1998, Shishir K. Ramam wrote:

> I am having trouble getting free bsd to recognize a western digital hard
> drive. any help would be greatly appreciated. more details follow...
> 
> the drive in question   : WDC AC33100 (3 gig hard drive)
> the geomwtry		: 6136 Cyl | 16 heads | 63 S/T | 512 T/S

Does your machine support large hard disks in the BIOS, i.e. LBA?  (Any
Pentium or recent 486 should.)  If not, you probably won't be able to use
an IDE drive larger than 540 MB.  (This is the other reason I prefer
SCSI... :> )

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