From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 29 00:18:52 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA07410 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 29 Jul 1996 00:18:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from root.com (implode.root.com [198.145.90.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA07401 for ; Mon, 29 Jul 1996 00:18:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by root.com (8.7.5/8.6.5) with SMTP id AAA26322; Mon, 29 Jul 1996 00:18:39 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199607290718.AAA26322@root.com> X-Authentication-Warning: implode.root.com: Host localhost [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: James Raynard cc: ian@gamespot.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: booteasy chokes on 4 gig barracuda In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 28 Jul 1996 14:08:56 -0000." <199607281408.OAA02498@jraynard.demon.co.uk> From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1996 00:18:39 -0700 Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> I've got the 4 gig seagate st15150N -- now I see in the archives that >> fbsd historically (January '95 in the archives!) does'nt like disks > 2 gig >> (really??) -- well, I'm currently gonna slice it up and see if that'll take. >> Anybody had a workaround for this? > >I find this hard to believe as well - Walnut Creek have been using >a 9G drive for Usenet for something like a year, so I'm told. >(The reason why it didn't work in Jan 95 was probably because >no-one had a disk that big to test it on!). Support for >2GB drives was broken in FreeBSD 2.0. If was fixed prior to the 2.0.5 release with the following commit: vnode_pager.c: ---------------------------- revision 1.25 date: 1995/02/22 10:34:34; author: davidg; state: Exp; lines: +7 -7 Changed return value from vnode_pager_addr to be in DEV_BSIZE units so that 9 bits aren't lost in the conversion. Changed all callers to expect this. This allows paging on large (>2GB) filesystems. Submitted by: John Dyson ---------------------------- -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project