Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 06:59:26 -0500 (CDT) From: Conrad Sabatier <conrads@neosoft.com> To: Simon Bennet <support@natsoft.com.au> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Partition Over 2048 Mega Bytes Message-ID: <XFMail.970818065926.conrads@neosoft.com> In-Reply-To: <33F86CE6.6334@natsoft.com.au>
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On 18-Aug-97 Simon Bennet wrote:
>
>I am attempting to install FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE on a Pentium 150MHz
>with a 3Gig IDE Hard Drive.
>
>When you run the bad block scan (bad144), at install time, it fails at
>the 2048 MByte point with every block past there being reported as
>an error. This happens whether the drive is in LBA or NORMAL mode.
>
>Please note that MSDOS cannot have a partition greater than 2048MByte,
>this is only possible with the lasest version of windows.
>
>Will FreeBSD support a single partition over 2048MBytes in length,
>or is this just a problem with the bad block scanning program?
Hmmm. No expert opinion here, but... :-)
I'm running FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE using a 3.2 gig Quantum Fireball (IDE)
drive, with no problems at all. The entire disk is allocated to FreeBSD in
one huge partition, with the following "slices" within the partition:
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/wd1a 31775 28466 767 97% /
/dev/wd1s1f 2927222 1894664 798381 70% /usr
/dev/wd1s1e 29727 6049 21300 22% /var
procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc
Could it be maybe that your drive's geometry is incorrectly specified? Or
maybe a BIOS or disk controller problem?
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