From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 9 00:09:24 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id AAA00209 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 9 Mar 1995 00:09:24 -0800 Received: from Root.COM (implode.Root.COM [198.145.90.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id AAA00203 for ; Thu, 9 Mar 1995 00:09:20 -0800 Received: from corbin.Root.COM (corbin.Root.COM [198.145.90.18]) by Root.COM (8.6.8/8.6.5) with ESMTP id XAA01204; Wed, 8 Mar 1995 23:32:47 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by corbin.Root.COM (8.6.9/8.6.5) with SMTP id XAA01529; Wed, 8 Mar 1995 23:32:47 -0800 Message-Id: <199503090732.XAA01529@corbin.Root.COM> X-Authentication-Warning: corbin.Root.COM: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: "Rodney W. Grimes" cc: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert), hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: A deal on hard Quantum hard drives In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 08 Mar 95 17:44:44 PST." <199503090144.RAA29410@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> From: David Greenman Reply-To: davidg@Root.COM Date: Wed, 08 Mar 1995 23:32:46 -0800 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> Actually, has anyone got a > 4G formatted capacity drive to test >> big disks and 64 bit offests with? > >It is > 2G that you need (32 bit SIGNED offset), and I know thud has >one on it, but it failed the tests when Gary tried to go with a 4GB >partition. > >I do not know who else out there has a >2G drive that they can just >play with. The failure was caused by a loss of precision when converting disk block offsets in the vnode pager. This has been fixed...so the tests need to be done again. -DG