Date: Fri, 22 Aug 1997 03:41:39 -0400 From: The Classiest Man Alive <ksmm@cybercom.net> To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Quantum 3.1G IDE HD - dual boot Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19970822034139.00978700@cybercom.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970821201150.300A-100000@Journey2.mat.net> References: <Pine.LNX.3.96.970821154049.7866K-100000@defenestration.hq.tis.com>
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At 08:12 PM 8/21/97 -0400, you wrote: >>We recently got a Quantum Fireball 3.1G IDE HD, and are trying to get Win >>95 and FreeBSD to dual boot. The drive info is: >> >>wd0: QUANTUM FIREBALL TM3200A 3067M 6281856 sectors 6232c/16h/63s 512b/sec >> This is intersting. I recently got a 6+ GB hard drive (Quantum Fireball, I think) and tried to install multiple operating systems on it. The results were as follows: WINDOWS 95 -- Windows 95 would only allow me to create a FAT16 partition less than 2 GB. If I used the FAT32 filesystem, it would allow me to use the entire disk without any problem. Of course, FAT32 is not backwards compatible with FAT16, so many utilities would be useless for drive repair/maintenance. WINDOWS NT 4.0 -- Windows NT's setup recognized the entire 6+ GB drive, but would only allow me to create an NTFS partition less than 4 GB. This actually surprised me, since NTFS, like HPFS (see below), has a theoretical limit of 512 GB. The 4 GB NTFS partition worked fine. However, some programs (all 32-bit and released within the past year) had problems installing because they reported the free disk space as being really low or even negative. I have PartitionMagic, which will allow dynamic resizing of NTFS (and many other) partitions, but I have not yet tried to use it to see if the NTFS partition would work at the full 6 GB. I am wondering what sysadmins do to get NT fileservers to work. Anybody? OS/2 WARP 4.0 -- The setup program reported the drive as a 94 MB hard drive, insufficient for an OS/2 installation. As a result OS/2 refused to install. Even after creating an HPFS partition with PartitionMagic, OS/2 refused to use it. HPFS has a theoretical limit of 512 GB, but the setup program seems to fail above 2 GB. Like NT (above), I suspect that the limitations are in the setup program and not in the operating system itself. SLACKWARE LINUX -- Recognized the entire drive and worked fine. No problems. FREEBSD -- Recognized the entire drive and worked fine. No problems. You'd think that after all the problem being caused by the Millenium Bug that programmers would create free space counts that would last more than 12-18 months. (A signed free space count...sheesh!) Oh, well. As usual, kudos go to the FreeBSD Core Team and its contributors. Keep up the good work. K.S.
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