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From: aak2@Ra.MsState.Edu (Atif Ahmad Khan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: FreeBSD and large IDE drives ?
Date: 28 Apr 1996 03:34:10 -0500
Organization: Mississippi State University
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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.

Thanks.

Atif Khan
aak2@ra.msstate.edu