From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Dec 25 15:52:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7412D14BFE; Sat, 25 Dec 1999 15:52:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id KAA36165; Sun, 26 Dec 1999 10:22:39 +1030 (CST) Date: Sun, 26 Dec 1999 10:22:39 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Mitch Collinsworth Cc: Mike Smith , Brandon DeYoung , freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 36 GB IDE Hard Drives Message-ID: <19991226102238.G1316@freebie.lemis.com> References: <199912250416.XAA78976@benge.graphics.cornell.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <199912250416.XAA78976@benge.graphics.cornell.edu> WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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