Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 03:06:40 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> To: Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org> Cc: Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net, bhyde@pobox.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 200Gig disk shrinks to 124 upon install Message-ID: <20030204020639.GA55010@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <15780000.1044322985@lerlaptop.lerctr.org> References: <BC506351-37CC-11D7-BDE4-003065CC5042@pobox.com> <31133.192.85.47.2.1044318316.squirrel@new.host.name> <15780000.1044322985@lerlaptop.lerctr.org>
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On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 07:43:05PM -0600, Larry Rosenman wrote: > > > --On Monday, February 03, 2003 16:25:16 -0800 Kevin Stevens > <Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net> wrote: > > >>I casually installed a 200 Gig dis on a 4.3-stable freebsd system. I > >>quickly followed the directions in > >>http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks- > >>adding.html section "12.3.2.2 Dedicated". df -g now reports that the > >>resulting disk is only 124 Gig, so I'm sad and confused. I expected > >>some shrinkage, but not quite so much. ideas? > > > >How current is your motherboard? If it doesn't support the ATA-6 spec > >there's a limit of 120-140GB (don't remember the details. > LBA(aka LBA28) is limited to 128G (Base 2 GB)/137G (Base 10 GB). > > LBA48 is the new standard. Entirely apart from the motherboard FreeBSD did not supporte LBA48 until 4.5-RELEASE. This means that with FreeBSD-4.3 you are limited to 128G when using IDE disks. Upgrading to 4.5 or later might help. -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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