From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Nov 3 3: 1:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6261B37B404 for ; Sun, 3 Nov 2002 03:01:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from srv1.cosmo-project.de (srv1.cosmo-project.de [213.83.6.106]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5556243E91 for ; Sun, 3 Nov 2002 03:01:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ticso@cicely8.cicely.de) Received: from cicely5.cicely.de (cicely5.cicely.de [IPv6:3ffe:400:8d0:301:200:92ff:fe9b:20e7]) by srv1.cosmo-project.de (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id gA3B15WQ078981 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=OK); Sun, 3 Nov 2002 12:01:08 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ticso@cicely8.cicely.de) Received: from cicely8.cicely.de (cicely8.cicely.de [10.1.1.10]) by cicely5.cicely.de (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gA3B13Cu094789 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Sun, 3 Nov 2002 12:01:04 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ticso@cicely8.cicely.de) Received: from cicely8.cicely.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cicely8.cicely.de (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gA3B12l8034652; Sun, 3 Nov 2002 12:01:03 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ticso@cicely8.cicely.de) Received: (from ticso@localhost) by cicely8.cicely.de (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gA3B11MK034651; Sun, 3 Nov 2002 12:01:01 +0100 (CET) Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2002 12:01:01 +0100 From: Bernd Walter To: John Fieber Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Formatting a large (1.3TB) SCSI disk Message-ID: <20021103110100.GC20256@cicely8.cicely.de> Reply-To: ticso@cicely.de References: <7ABB1A10-ED15-11D6-BA17-00039349B214@slis.indiana.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7ABB1A10-ED15-11D6-BA17-00039349B214@slis.indiana.edu> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD cicely8.cicely.de 5.0-CURRENT i386 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 04:12:36PM -0500, John Fieber wrote: > I'm a bit stumped on this. I have a roughly 1.3 terabyte disk array > attached via an Adaptec 39166 controller (on the motherboard of a Dell > 2650). I understand there is a gap between the theoretical filesystem > size limits and the actual limits which I gather hover around 1TB. > Okay, so I can partition the disk and make a couple smaller > filesystems. But I can't even get the thing sliced (fdisk) or > partitioned (disklabel). 1T disks and bigger are not supported under -stable. I don't know how far the development under -current is. -- B.Walter COSMO-Project http://www.cosmo-project.de ticso@cicely.de Usergroup info@cosmo-project.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message