From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 11 11:57:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from battleship.genevaonline.com (battleship.genevaonline.com [156.46.205.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E4B014EBB for ; Thu, 11 Mar 1999 11:57:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from thiel@genevaonline.com) Received: from vishnu (pm3-ppp106.genevaonline.com [156.46.117.106]) by battleship.genevaonline.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id OAA27658; Thu, 11 Mar 1999 14:00:04 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <199903112000.OAA27658@battleship.genevaonline.com> X-Sender: thiel@mail.genevaonline.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0 Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 13:51:07 -0600 To: Ben Laurie , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Loren Thiel Subject: Re: Big IDE disks? In-Reply-To: <36E80304.C99C501E@algroup.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I believe I saw an update on microsloths site for fdisk to make it see disks larger than 8GB. If that's the fdisk you're referring to. Loren At 11:53 AM 3/11/99 , Ben Laurie wrote: >I'm trying to install an 18 GB EIDE disk on FreeBSD 2.2.7. The BIOS >concedes that it is big, after I enable "S.M.A.R.T." (whatever that is), >but fdisk refuses to believe it is any larger than 8 GB. Is there a way >to make this work? > >Cheers, > >Ben. > >-- >http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html > >"My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those >who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the >first group; there was less competition there." > - Indira Gandhi > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message