Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 21:16:20 +0000 From: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com> To: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Big IDE disks? Message-ID: <19990311211620.C231@localhost> In-Reply-To: <36E80304.C99C501E@algroup.co.uk>; from Ben Laurie on Thu, Mar 11, 1999 at 05:53:08PM %2B0000 References: <36E80304.C99C501E@algroup.co.uk>
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On Thu, Mar 11, 1999 at 05:53:08PM +0000, 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?
>
Yes. You have to u/g to 2.2.8 or later. Support for >8GB disks was
introduced in 2.2.8
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