Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 16:35:35 -0500 From: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu> To: Glenn Dawson <glenn@antimatter.net>, Bo Xiao <boxiao63@hotmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can FreeBSD handle 300G SATA disk? Message-ID: <20DBCDC69BD1A9481FF4929A@Paul-Schmehls-Computer.local> In-Reply-To: <6.1.0.6.2.20050814133302.10dfbeb0@cobalt.antimatter.net> References: <BAY103-F29668ECA4A4D0DE1D73705D8BE0@phx.gbl> <6.1.0.6.2.20050814133302.10dfbeb0@cobalt.antimatter.net>
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--On August 14, 2005 1:36:42 PM -0700 Glenn Dawson <glenn@antimatter.net> wrote: > At 10:11 PM 8/13/2005, Bo Xiao wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Having trouble install a 300G SATA with 5.4 release. HW is Dell >> PowerEdge. First disk >> is a 80G SATA. All is good. When adding the 300G, sysinstall cant >> understand the >> geom, 581421/16/63. It thinks it is 36481/255/63. Cant write to the >> disk. Even if I >> use G to tell it, it still wont take it. > > Both of those geometries specify about the same amount of space, although > the second one will be a tiny bit smaller, but when you have 300G acouple > of missing kbytes is no big deal. > I missed the original post, but I'm running a Dell box with 2 300GB SATA drives on it, and I had no problems during the install. Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu) Adjunct Information Security Officer University of Texas at Dallas AVIEN Founding Member http://www.utdallas.edu/
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