From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 14 8:24:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73C0437B401 for ; Sat, 14 Dec 2002 08:24:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (bgm-24-94-58-56.stny.rr.com [24.94.58.56]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B932D43EB2 for ; Sat, 14 Dec 2002 08:24:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from syborg@stny.rr.com) Received: by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix, from userid 507) id D09D64FC8A; Sat, 14 Dec 2002 11:10:17 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C91604A0F; Sat, 14 Dec 2002 11:10:17 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 11:10:17 -0500 (EST) From: John Bleichert X-X-Sender: syborg@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org Reply-To: John Bleichert To: David Gethings Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fdisk and HD's larger than 2GB In-Reply-To: <1039799716.11203.84.camel@trigger.highway.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 13 Dec 2002, David Gethings wrote: > Date: 13 Dec 2002 17:15:17 +0000 > From: David Gethings > To: John Bleichert > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: fdisk and HD's larger than 2GB > > On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 14:41, John Bleichert wrote: > > > This can't be a bug or limitation in FreeBSD's fdisk, it must be a quirk > > in your hardware (we've all seen them hehe!). Since 4.5, I've had FreeBSD > > installed on several boxes with enormous hard drives in various > > partitioning schemes without a glitch. > > > > I had issues once with OpenBSD wanting to be on a smaller partition, but > > never with FreeBSD. > Ah! Didn't think of that. I know it's a Maxtor something-or-other, I'll > have to have a look to work out the exact model. Once I've done that > I'll check the hardware compatability list. > > Cheers > > Dg > I'd wager it's a quirk in how your motherboard is reporting the setup to the opsys (or bootloader, whatever). Maxtor's are slow and loud, but they seem fairly reliable. Good luck! JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message