From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 23 18:27:37 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA26927 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 23 Aug 1997 18:27:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts9-line7.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA26921 for ; Sat, 23 Aug 1997 18:27:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA00521; Sat, 23 Aug 1997 18:27:00 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 23 Aug 1997 18:26:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira cc: Craig Wilson , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IDE Drives Greater Than 2048MBytes In-Reply-To: <199708191208.JAA09098@srv1-bsb.gns.com.br> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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