Subject: Re: 8GB fdisk limit?
To: Justin Dittmann <jrdittmann@wisc.edu>
From: Kfir Lavi <kfirlavi@actcom.co.il>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 04/17/2005 03:40:12
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On Sunday 17 April 2005 02:38, Justin Dittmann wrote:
> >You want to use the disk as a boot disk?
> >Your BIOS seems to be too old for that big disks.
> >One possibility is to use a PCI based IDE-Controller that has an own
> >BIOS on the card.
>
> Actually... I don't want to use the disk as a boot disk (the 6GB one
> works just fine), and I DO have a PCI based IDE-Controller
> installed... hehe.  It's just as old as the compy.  Linux mounts the
> 120 GB just fine, so maybe I'll just boot off a cd-rom and fdisk in
> linux...
>
> -Justin
Its because linux don't count on the bios and handle the hard disk from the=
=20
software.
I run P100 as movie and music server with 200GB hd - with debian sarge.
hehe=20
kfir

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