Hi-- On Dec 9, 2009, at 10:44 AM, Peter Steele wrote: > Add my name to the list--we get tons of these messages since upgrading to > 8.0....
This isn't new with 8.x; it's been around since 4.0, if not earlier. For a long time, BIOSes using the older C/H/S addressing mechanism were limited to ~8GB in size, and prior to LBA 48-bit addressing there was a ~130GB size limit. So long as the system is seeing the proper size of the drive, you can safely ignore the messages; if the drive size is not being detected properly, make sure your BIOS is updated, is set to look at drives using LBA mode (rather than C/H/S), and make sure the drive itself doesn't have a jumper limiting it to legacy addressing mode. Most of the time, "you can safely ignore the message" applies and one can ignore the rest the above. :-) Regards, -- -Chuck PS: Now, if 8.x is repeatedly logging these messages, that might be new behavior and worth adjusting. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
