Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Re: 8GB fdisk limit=3F?=
To: Justin Dittmann <jrdittmann@wisc.edu>
From: David Wetzel <dave@turbocat.de>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 04/17/2005 01:27:57
hi,

Justin Dittmann wrote:
> Now, whenever I'm partitioning the drive, it will only let me put up 
> to cylinder 1028 (8GB limit).

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.

HTH

dave

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