Date: Sat, 23 Aug 1997 18:26:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira <lioux@gns.com.br> Cc: Craig Wilson <craig@natsoft.com.au>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IDE Drives Greater Than 2048MBytes Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970823182632.366U-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <199708191208.JAA09098@srv1-bsb.gns.com.br>
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On Tue, 19 Aug 1997, Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira wrote: > > > Will FreeBSD support a partition over 2048MBytes in length, or is this > > > just a problem with the bad block scanning program? > > > > freeBSD will have no problem, it must be a bug in bad144. This is the > > first time I've heard of this. > > I've seen the same odd behavior. It happened with 3 different systems I > tried to work with. > Whenever I tried a partition size over 2048Mb the bad144 check crashed. Well, poo. Guess it's time to fire up send-pr. In the meantime you can get away w/o running bad144 unless you're having bad sector problems on those disks now. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo
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