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Date:      Fri, 21 Jan 2000 09:52:18 -0600 (CST)
From:      Chris Zwilling <chris@cloudnet.com>
To:        Steve Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Large drives
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.10.10001210950290.10443-100000@arus.cloudnet.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10001210920100.25336-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net>

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On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Steve Hovey wrote:
> 
> I thought there was an 8 or 9 gig lim on what freebsd could see of any one
> signle drive - is this limitation gone? or is there some technic for
> slicing something larger up?
> 

AFAIK there is no limit for SCSI drives (yet - wait for the 2TB drives).
For IDE drives there were several limitations - mainly the wd driver uses
CHS translation instead of LBA unless you tell the driver to use LBA
(check out /usr/src/sys/conf/LINT?).  For my drive I set the paramater
flags to 0xb0ffb0ff - YMMV.

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