Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 22:38:19 +0100 From: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" <steve@sohara.org> To: David Greenman <dg@root.com> Cc: mrcpu@internetcds.com, clash@tasam.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems with large disk. (> 1 TB) Message-ID: <20020320223819.69e8bd86.steve@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <20020320110647.A96231@nexus.root.com> References: <20020319131556.D99985@backmaster.cdsnet.net> <008901c1cf8c$be5d6f50$090510ac@gleason> <00b401c1cf8d$8960b7c0$090510ac@gleason> <20020319202137.U68606@backmaster.cdsnet.net> <20020320081439.74ca4530.steve@sohara.org> <20020319232049.W75496@nexus.root.com> <20020320190727.1cb65fac.steve@sohara.org> <20020320110647.A96231@nexus.root.com>
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On Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:06:47 -0800
David Greenman <dg@root.com> wrote:
DG> They're only seperate devices in the same sense that a different partition
DG> is a different device. In both cases this is just a software abstraction.
DG> FreeBSD internally calculates an offset within the whole disk when individual
All is now clear - apart from one little detail. The OP that started
this thread reported that making a small DOS partition at the start of
the drive enabled him to use the rest of the drive from FreeBSD. It now
seems to me that this should not have worked.
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