From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 21 7:52:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from arus.cloudnet.com (arus.cloudnet.com [204.221.240.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1875B1514E for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 07:52:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chris@cloudnet.com) Received: from localhost (chris@localhost) by arus.cloudnet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA10469; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 09:52:18 -0600 X-Authentication-Warning: arus.cloudnet.com: chris owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 09:52:18 -0600 (CST) From: Chris Zwilling To: Steve Hovey Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Large drives In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. ;-----------------------------------------; ; ; Chris Zwilling ; Don't let people drive you crazy ; chris@cloudnet.com ; when you know it's in walking distance ; System Administrator ; ; 320.240.8243 ;-----------------------------------------; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message