Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 11:24:11 -0500 From: "Gail M. Pickett" <gmpicket@icx.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Large drives Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20000121112411.0079fb20@mailhub.icx.net>
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Regarding LBA. I have an old i486 that I am going to convert from DOS/Win95 to FreeBSD 3.3 - Release. The machine currently cannot recognize LBA, thus unable to format correctly drives over 515MB. I got the software from the manufacturer of the motherboard for flashing the BIOS to update it to understand LBA, but is this necessary for FreeBSD? or is it just a DOS problem? At 09:52 AM 1/21/00 -0600, you wrote: >On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Steve Hovey wrote: >> >> I thought there was an 8 or 9 gig lim on what freebsd could see of any one >> signle drive - is this limitation gone? or is there some technic for >> slicing something larger up? >> > >AFAIK there is no limit for SCSI drives (yet - wait for the 2TB drives). >For IDE drives there were several limitations - mainly the wd driver uses >CHS translation instead of LBA unless you tell the driver to use LBA >(check out /usr/src/sys/conf/LINT?). For my drive I set the paramater >flags to 0xb0ffb0ff - YMMV. > >;-----------------------------------------; >; ; Chris Zwilling >; Don't let people drive you crazy ; chris@cloudnet.com >; when you know it's in walking distance ; System Administrator >; ; 320.240.8243 >;-----------------------------------------; > > > >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
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