Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 21:15:34 +0000 From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Kent Hauser <kent@tfd.com> Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: large IDE disks Message-ID: <199711242115.WAA00949@wall.jhs.no_domain> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 20 Nov 1997 10:39:01 EST." <199711201539.KAA14531@rtp.tfd.com>
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Hi, Reference: > From: Kent Hauser <kent@tfd.com> > Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 10:39:01 -0500 (EST) > Message-id: <199711201539.KAA14531@rtp.tfd.com> Kent Hauser wrote: > > I need some advice. > > I'm putting a 2.2 GB IDE disk in my laptop. The problem is the > bad sector information. With the straightforward approach, you > can only store 126 bad sectors. A lot more than that were found. > > My question is: how's this done? How do you get freebsd to > handle big disks? > > Please respond directly as I'm not on the list. Thanks. A friend (Terry Carroll, Munich (still not on the net) told me he used fdisk to carve his disc into 4 slices first, then he ran bad144 * 4. Ive no idea if this is valid or not, no doubt other wiser people will comment :-) Julian -- Julian H. Stacey jhs@freebsd.org http://www.freebsd.org/~jhs/
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