Date: Sun, 26 Dec 1999 10:22:39 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Mitch Collinsworth <mkc@Graphics.Cornell.EDU> Cc: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, Brandon DeYoung <brandon@schoolpeople.net>, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 36 GB IDE Hard Drives Message-ID: <19991226102238.G1316@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199912250416.XAA78976@benge.graphics.cornell.edu> References: <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> <199912250416.XAA78976@benge.graphics.cornell.edu>
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On Friday, 24 December 1999 at 23:16:54 -0500, Mitch Collinsworth wrote: > >>> Are hard drives larger than 32 GB supported by Free BSD. I've had both = >>> the 3.3 and 3.4 releases fail during the make New FS portion of the = >>> install, when installing on a Maxtor 36 GB drive. >> >> There shouldn't be any issues with large drives, no. Since you don't >> provide any details to qualify "fail", it's hard to guess where your >> problems might lie. > > There's been discussion of this recently, I think on -questions. > Those involved seemed to agree there is a newfs barrier at around > 27 to 27.5 GB. Smaller works fine, larger fails. Based on that you > should be able to partition your 36 GB and make it usable now. IIRC > there is a new driver in the works that's supposed to solve the > problem. Correct. That's a thing I forgot to mention in my last message: we've tried the new ata driver with large disks and had no problems. That doesn't mean there are none, though: until we know what causes the problems, we can't be sure that they're gone. ata is standard in 4.0. Greg -- 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-hardware" in the body of the message
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