Can FreeBSD handle 300G SATA disk?

[Glenn Dawson]

At 10:11 PM 8/13/2005, Bo Xiao wrote:

>   Hi,
>
>   Having trouble install a 300G SATA with 5.4 release. HW is Dell
>   PowerEdge. First disk
>   is a 80G SATA. All is good. When adding the 300G, sysinstall cant
>   understand the
>   geom, 581421/16/63. It thinks it is 36481/255/63. Cant write to the
>   disk. Even if I
>   use G to tell it, it still wont take it.

Both of those geometries specify about the same amount of space, although 
the second one will be a tiny bit smaller, but when you have 300G acouple 
of missing kbytes is no big deal.

Your problem is likely something else.  Can you give more details about 
exactly what you're doing to set up the new disk?  What version of FreeBSD 
are you using?  etc...

-Glenn


>   Help please.
>
>   Bo Xiao.
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