Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 01:21:08 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com> To: garya@dreamchaser.org Cc: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: scsi disk with 1.080 Gig Message-ID: <199601300921.BAA07950@ref.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: <9601300742.AA05505@ montana.com > from "garya@dreamchaser.org" at Jan 30, 96 00:42:26 am
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I hope this isn't true or I'm going to have to take those 2GB drives of again:) no there is no problem at all with scsi drives up to about a terrabyte or so.. > > There is a statement in the FAQ which implies FreeBSD has > problems dealing with disks larger than 1.024 Gig. Does no idea to what this refers, but it probably refers to when the BIOS is accessing the drive. in which case you must make sure that the ROOT partition is < that position, or the BIOS can't get to the kernel... once it's been loaded the whole drive is reachable. > this mean if I partition a 1.080 Gig disk with the FreeBSD > portion at the end, that it will have trouble dealing with > it? What do I need to do to make it work, if so? > (This is version 2.1) > > Gary Aitken garya@dreamchaser.org >
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