Re: Big IDE drive + little IDE controller + freebsd

2003-03-08 Thread Soeren Schmidt
It seems James Satterfield wrote: Hmm there is a workaround in -current for using 48bit access to the old promises, however it should only engage when you access areas beyond 137G on the drives. However using 48bit modes on older controllers are not really a good idea as they tend to do wierd thin

Re: Big IDE drive + little IDE controller + freebsd

2003-03-07 Thread James Satterfield
Okay... Perhaps I'm just a dumbass with a failing drive? For the longest time, I've thought the hardware needed to support the large drives. From the reading I've just done, that doesn't seem to be the case. I certainly hope this brand new drive isn't failing tho. I really hate doing hardware wa