Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 11:10:17 -0500 (EST) From: John Bleichert <syborg@stny.rr.com> To: David Gethings <davidg@pipex.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fdisk and HD's larger than 2GB Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0212141109270.11935-100000@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org> In-Reply-To: <1039799716.11203.84.camel@trigger.highway.co.uk>
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On 13 Dec 2002, David Gethings wrote: > Date: 13 Dec 2002 17:15:17 +0000 > From: David Gethings <davidg@pipex.net> > To: John Bleichert <syborg@stny.rr.com> > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: fdisk and HD's larger than 2GB > > On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 14:41, John Bleichert wrote: > > > This can't be a bug or limitation in FreeBSD's fdisk, it must be a quirk > > in your hardware (we've all seen them hehe!). Since 4.5, I've had FreeBSD > > installed on several boxes with enormous hard drives in various > > partitioning schemes without a glitch. > > > > I had issues once with OpenBSD wanting to be on a smaller partition, but > > never with FreeBSD. > Ah! Didn't think of that. I know it's a Maxtor something-or-other, I'll > have to have a look to work out the exact model. Once I've done that > I'll check the hardware compatability list. > > Cheers > > Dg > I'd wager it's a quirk in how your motherboard is reporting the setup to the opsys (or bootloader, whatever). Maxtor's are slow and loud, but they seem fairly reliable. Good luck! JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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