Date: Wed, 6 May 1998 17:12:56 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Jon E. Mitchiner" <jon@minotaur.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How do I use IDE HD. more than 8G Message-ID: <19980506171256.B329@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <000001bd78be$08bcc430$641146d1@roaming.minotaur.com>; from Jon E. Mitchiner on Wed, May 06, 1998 at 03:10:22AM -0400 References: <000d01bd78ab$13baec80$4d0c758c@wing.cc.nsysu.edu.tw> <000001bd78be$08bcc430$641146d1@roaming.minotaur.com>
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On Wed, 6 May 1998 at 3:10:22 -0400, Jon E. Mitchiner wrote: >> But , the boot disk can only allocate 8G disk space , I've >> tried to edit >> geometry , bot I can't >> label disk space over 8G. > > Does your BIOS support drives larger than 8.4GB? You might have to upgrade > your bios in order for it to support > 8.4GB so you might want to check with > your motherboard manufacturer for a update. This is a FreeBSD problem, and it's gradually becoming a FAQ. A patch was applied to -CURRENT about a month ago. I'll enquire when we can get it in 2.2.6. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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