From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 4 15: 9:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 212EF37B8C1 for ; Sat, 4 Mar 2000 15:09:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id JAA30086; Sun, 5 Mar 2000 09:38:30 +1030 (CST) Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2000 09:38:30 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Technical Information Cc: Jay Oliver , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Does FreeBSD have any issues with larger IDE drives? Message-ID: <20000305093830.A30067@freebie.lemis.com> References: <003b01bf83f7$7d06ed70$2260e4d0@CHAOS> <4.2.2.20000302225140.00c40270@mail.threespace.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20000302225140.00c40270@mail.threespace.com> WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday, 2 March 2000 at 22:54:03 -0500, Technical Information wrote: > At 10:29 PM 3/1/00 , Jay Oliver wrote: >> I realize this is probably a silly question to ask, yet when I did ask the >> linux community (circa 2.2.13) the same question, the answer was a >> resounding no... and completely wrong. I completely lost all the data on >> the drive due to it seeing every cluster after a certain point and just >> wiping them in the bootup fsck. So I ask you now, are there any known >> issues with large (meaning 33.8+ gig) IDE drives currently in the 3.4 >> release? If not, are there any things I should be aware of, as it is >> currently one large ext2 partition? Can I leave it as such without any >> problems? > > I had problems partitioning large hard drives until I updated my BIOS. I > don't think that FreeBSD has any problems with the largest commercially > available drives, but not all computers are created equal. Any computer > more than 16 months old is definitely suspect. The wd driver in FreeBSD 3.x can't handle partitions of more than about 27 GB in CHS mode. There's no problem with multiple partitions, there doesn't seem to be any problem with LBA mode, and the problem doesn't exist in the new ata driver which will be released in 4.0. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message