Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 09:52:18 -0600 (CST) From: Chris Zwilling <chris@cloudnet.com> To: Steve Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Large drives Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10001210950290.10443-100000@arus.cloudnet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10001210920100.25336-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net>
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On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Steve Hovey wrote: > > I thought there was an 8 or 9 gig lim on what freebsd could see of any one > signle drive - is this limitation gone? or is there some technic for > slicing something larger up? > AFAIK there is no limit for SCSI drives (yet - wait for the 2TB drives). For IDE drives there were several limitations - mainly the wd driver uses CHS translation instead of LBA unless you tell the driver to use LBA (check out /usr/src/sys/conf/LINT?). For my drive I set the paramater flags to 0xb0ffb0ff - YMMV. ;-----------------------------------------; ; ; Chris Zwilling ; Don't let people drive you crazy ; chris@cloudnet.com ; when you know it's in walking distance ; System Administrator ; ; 320.240.8243 ;-----------------------------------------; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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