Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 22:54:03 -0500 From: Technical Information <tech_info@threespace.com> To: Jay Oliver <kythorn@scorched.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Does FreeBSD have any issues with larger IDE drives? Message-ID: <4.2.2.20000302225140.00c40270@mail.threespace.com> In-Reply-To: <003b01bf83f7$7d06ed70$2260e4d0@CHAOS>
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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. --Chip Morton 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? > >Thank you, >- Jay Oliver To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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