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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news-feed-1.peachnet.edu!paperboy.wellfleet.com!news3.near.net!news.ner.bbnplanet.net!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!newsjunkie.ans.net!newsfeeds.ans.net!netnews.lightside.com!st-ursen.lightside.net!user From: fred@lightside.net (Fred Condo) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD and large IDE drives ? Date: Sun, 28 Apr 1996 13:40:40 -0700 Organization: Lightside, Inc. Lines: 29 Message-ID: <fred-2804961340400001@st-ursen.lightside.net> References: <aak2.830680177@Ra.MsState.Edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: st-ursen.lightside.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In article <aak2.830680177@Ra.MsState.Edu>, aak2@Ra.MsState.Edu (Atif Ahmad Khan) wrote: >Does anybdy know if a way to get large IDE hard drives to >work under FreeBSD ? > >I have a 2.5GB Western Digital and even though my BIOS >reports its correct parameters to the OS, I cant get >FreeBSD installed on the drive. > >If anybody out there has successfully installed FreeBSD on >this big of an IDE drive, please let me know and I will shut >up and start looking at things I may have done wrong. For >now I think its FreeBSD that I have to blame. > >Any help would be appreciated. We had a similar thing happen to us with a 1.2 GB Western Digital IDE drive. The solution we used was to partition the drive in "no-cooperation" mode. This prevents you from sharing the drive with other OS's, but if you are making a dedicated BSD machine, this is no problem. Details are in the README file in the installation software on the boot floppy. (Note: this is not a separate file, but part of the help in the install software, so boot from the boot floppy to read it.) -- http://www.lightside.net/~fred/ + net access + http://www.lightside.net/ "Attempts to control the use of encryption technology are wrong in principle, unworkable in practice, and damaging to the long term economic value of the information networks." - UK Labour Party