Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 00:02:42 +0200 From: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely12.cicely.de> To: ticso@cicely.de, freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FBSD 4.9 on AlphaServer 1000a/400 Message-ID: <20040525220241.GW63479@cicely12.cicely.de> In-Reply-To: <20040525215103.GA10792@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> References: <005c01c43d21$d6c3ae60$6a0aa8c0@sassie.net> <20040519130709.Q77039@ns> <20040519160523.GX70900@cicely12.cicely.de> <20040525215103.GA10792@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au>
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On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 07:51:03AM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On 2004-May-19 18:05:23 +0200, Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely12.cicely.de> wrote: > >AFAIK the 960 can't handle drives with sizes greater than 8G and > >some firmware revisions even with drives >2G, but I'm not shure with it. > >Have this drives ever been in use with this controller? > > We have a significant number of KZPAC (Mylex DAC960) controllers in use > and looked into this issue a few years ago. > > I haven't seen any references to a 2GB limit. DEC/Compaq/HP state > that the maximum drive size is 9.1GB. We have experimented with > JBOD volumes using larger disks (18GB and 36GB) - which seem to work > successfully. Note that block addresses wrap around at 32GB - the > configuration utility recognizes that the 36GB disk has 36GB but > wraps the top 4GB over the bottom 4GB - which is undesirable. I mixed something up - it seems to be the boot partition limitation on x86 BIOS. Alpha boot support is different of course. -- B.Walter BWCT http://www.bwct.de bernd@bwct.de info@bwct.de
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