Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1996 11:02:17 +0000 From: "Ian Kallen" <ian@gamespot.com> To: dg@Root.COM, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: booteasy chokes on 4 gig barracuda Message-ID: <199607291057.KAA08787@gamespot.com>
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I installed a small DOS slice and that seemed to fix it -- booteasy
recognized everything just fine after that.
> To: James Raynard <fqueries@jraynard.demon.co.uk>
> Cc: ian@gamespot.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: booteasy chokes on 4 gig barracuda
> From: David Greenman <dg@Root.COM>
> Reply-to: dg@Root.COM
> Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1996 00:18:39 -0700
> >> 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
>
>
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