From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Aug 19 04:39:49 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id EAA29834 for stable-outgoing; Tue, 19 Aug 1997 04:39:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from godzilla.zeta.org.au (godzilla.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id EAA29828 for ; Tue, 19 Aug 1997 04:39:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bde@localhost) by godzilla.zeta.org.au (8.8.5/8.6.9) id VAA08777; Tue, 19 Aug 1997 21:32:47 +1000 Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 21:32:47 +1000 From: Bruce Evans Message-Id: <199708191132.VAA08777@godzilla.zeta.org.au> To: support@natsoft.com.au, tom@uniserve.com Subject: Re: FreeBSD Partition Over 2048 Mega Bytes Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> When you run the bad block scan (bad144), at install time, it fails at >> the 2048 MByte point with every block past there being reported as >> an error. This happens whether the drive is in LBA or NORMAL mode. > > Quite likely bad144 doesn't support filesystems that big. It should work, but it has the usual overflow bug in the lseek offset calculation. Bruce