From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 26 15:25:05 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 99F1916A41F for ; Sat, 26 Nov 2005 15:25:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bsd@kelleycows.com) Received: from sccrmhc11.comcast.net (sccrmhc11.comcast.net [204.127.202.55]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8C3543D67 for ; Sat, 26 Nov 2005 15:24:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bsd@kelleycows.com) Received: from [10.3.29.200] (c-24-30-114-96.hsd1.ca.comcast.net[24.30.114.96]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc11) with ESMTP id <20051126152454011000a7r3e>; Sat, 26 Nov 2005 15:24:54 +0000 Message-ID: <43887E45.5010401@kelleycows.com> Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 07:24:53 -0800 From: Christopher Kelley User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051107) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Jeays References: <20051124120055.11A4F16A41F@hub.freebsd.org> <4388103A.9010602@kelleycows.com> <1133009970.95177.5.camel@chaucer.jeays.ca> In-Reply-To: <1133009970.95177.5.camel@chaucer.jeays.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unable to install on large hard drive X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 15:25:05 -0000 Mike Jeays wrote: >On Fri, 2005-11-25 at 23:35 -0800, Christopher Kelley wrote: > > >>Up until now, I've installed FreeBSD on smaller drives (< 15 gig), but I >>recently had to replace the HD in my windows machine, so I got a larger >>hard drive with the idea of installing fBSD on it as well and dual >>booting that machine. >> [snip, snip] >>I did look through the manual and searched a bit on google, but I'm not >>having much luck finding even suggestions of what to try. Does anyone >>have any suggestions? >> >>Christopher >> >>_______________________________________________ >>freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >>http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >>To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> >> > >I reported a similar problem with a Maxtor D740X-SL 40GB drive a few >weeks ago. I cannot get this drive to work properly with recent >versions of FreeBSD, and get the same error during installation. The >disk seems to work fine with Fedora and Ubuntu. I made it work by >disabling DMA, but the performance was awful. My motherboard is an ASUS >P4S533. > > Hmmm ... well, I already have a few fBSD installs, maybe I'll try Ubuntu or something for the dual-boot. Never hurts to try something new. Christopher