From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 28 15:44:23 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA15266 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 28 Jul 1996 15:44:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay-2.mail.demon.net (disperse.demon.co.uk [158.152.1.77]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA15247 for ; Sun, 28 Jul 1996 15:44:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from post.demon.co.uk ([158.152.1.72]) by relay-2.mail.demon.net id ae05890; 28 Jul 96 23:44 +0100 Received: from jraynard.demon.co.uk ([158.152.42.77]) by relay-3.mail.demon.net id aa27415; 28 Jul 96 23:42 +0100 Received: (from fqueries@localhost) by jraynard.demon.co.uk (8.7.5/8.6.12) id OAA02498; Sun, 28 Jul 1996 14:08:56 GMT From: James Raynard Message-Id: <199607281408.OAA02498@jraynard.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: booteasy chokes on 4 gig barracuda To: ian@gamespot.com Date: Sun, 28 Jul 1996 14:08:56 +0000 () Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199607272322.XAA07557@gamespot.com> from "Ian Kallen" at Jul 27, 96 11:27:02 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > I've got the 4 gig seagate st15150N -- now I see in the archives that > fbsd historically (January '95 in the archives!) does'nt like disks > 2 gig > (really??) -- well, I'm currently gonna slice it up and see if that'll take. > Anybody had a workaround for this? I find this hard to believe as well - Walnut Creek have been using a 9G drive for Usenet for something like a year, so I'm told. (The reason why it didn't work in Jan 95 was probably because no-one had a disk that big to test it on!). In any case, it's always a good idea to put as many partitions (in the FreeBSD sense) as you can on a disk, as it reduces the potential for loss if anything goes wrong. (Don't forget your data is only as good as your last backup!)