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Date:      Fri, 31 Jul 1998 15:20:04 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        vwayne@xnet.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Help Needed
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.00.9807311519310.14321-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <35C2150A.74A8@xnet.com>

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On Fri, 31 Jul 1998 vwayne@xnet.com wrote:

> Can anyone their tell me why freebsd 2.2.6 will not see drives larger
> than 8.5 gig? I just installed 3 11.5 gig drives and in cmos it says the
> right amount but infreebsd it does not. Is there a way to have freebsd
> see these drives?

Upgrade to CURRENT.  The IDE code in 2.2.x doesn't recognize more than 8gb
on IDE drives, but the CURRENT code has been patched.

Don't know why this hasn't been backported to STABLE ... 

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major


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