From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 4 13:35:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mtiwmhc25.worldnet.att.net (mtiwmhc25.worldnet.att.net [204.127.131.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A67D37B895 for ; Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:35:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tech_info@threespace.com) Received: from dallas ([12.73.242.35]) by mtiwmhc25.worldnet.att.net (InterMail vM.4.01.02.31a 201-229-119-114) with ESMTP id <20000304213503.YAIF17170.mtiwmhc25.worldnet.att.net@dallas>; Sat, 4 Mar 2000 21:35:03 +0000 Message-Id: <4.2.2.20000302225140.00c40270@mail.threespace.com> X-Sender: tech_info@mail.threespace.com (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 22:54:03 -0500 To: Jay Oliver From: Technical Information Subject: Re: Does FreeBSD have any issues with larger IDE drives? Cc: FreeBSD Questions In-Reply-To: <003b01bf83f7$7d06ed70$2260e4d0@CHAOS> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I had problems partitioning large hard drives until I updated my BIOS. I don't think that FreeBSD has any problems with the largest commercially available drives, but not all computers are created equal. Any computer more than 16 months old is definitely suspect. --Chip Morton At 10:29 PM 3/1/00 , Jay Oliver wrote: >I realize this is probably a silly question to ask, yet when I did ask the >linux community (circa 2.2.13) the same question, the answer was a >resounding no... and completely wrong. I completely lost all the data on >the drive due to it seeing every cluster after a certain point and just >wiping them in the bootup fsck. So I ask you now, are there any known >issues with large (meaning 33.8+ gig) IDE drives currently in the 3.4 >release? If not, are there any things I should be aware of, as it is >currently one large ext2 partition? Can I leave it as such without any >problems? > >Thank you, >- Jay Oliver To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message