Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 11:59:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Dmitri Blinov <Dmitri_Blinov@dialogbank.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can FreeBSD see more than 8039Mb on my IDE 8.4Gb HDD ? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9905171158460.15052-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <373A9D26.307D6E1E@dialogbank.com>
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On Thu, 13 May 1999, Dmitri Blinov wrote: > How can I manage to use last 400Mb of my 8.4Gb IDE HDD ? You're bumping up against the 8GB limit. Make sure LBA mode is turned on in your BIOS, and try upgrading to either 3.1-STABLE or 3.2-RELEASE when it comes out. > I installed FreeBSD 3.1 (Release). > When I used FDISK option of sysinstall, I got the following situation : > > At the beggining of process my disk contained three partitions ( slices > ) > > 1. FAT16 - 512Mb > 2. Ext DOS - 1.5Gb > 3. NTFS - 4Gb > > FDISK correctly determined that I have 2.4Gb of unused disk space. > > Then I tried to create FreeBSD partition with size of all free space on > my disk. > But when I pressed OK, I saw that new partition had 2Gb size and > I still had 400Mb unused. Hmmm. Again I tried to create next ( 5 ) > partition with the same procedure and when I pressed OK, I saw > that this partition had 0Mb size and I still had 400Mb unused. > > I heard that Windows NT 4.0 had the same problem with IDE disks > until SP4. They say it was ATAPI limitation or something like > that - I don't remember now. > > I don't know if it important but for the sake of completeness > there are my specs : > > HDD - IBM DTTA-350840. > Motherboard - ChainTech BTM6 440BX. > CPU - PII-350MHz. > > Thank you, > > Dmitry. > > PS. I tried it with 2.2.7-release as well and got the > same result. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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