From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 16 14:46: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from shell.xecu.net (shell.xecu.net [208.241.7.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F571152B4; Thu, 16 Dec 1999 14:45:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andy@xecu.net) Received: from localhost (andy@localhost) by shell.xecu.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id RAA18475; Thu, 16 Dec 1999 17:45:44 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: shell.xecu.net: andy owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 17:45:43 -0500 (EST) From: Andy Dills To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Maxtor 40GB HD Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG After fooling around with my problem (trying to create a 40GB fs), I've found something strange. It feels like there is a hard limit somewhere between 27 and 27.5 GB. If I make a FS 27.5 GB large, the newfs will fail. If it's 27 GB, it works. I don't think it's a geometry problem, as it doesn't matter if it's the last 27 GB of the disk or the first 27 GB; both work. But, regardless of position on the disk, I can't create a FS larger that this limit that is somewhere between 27 and 27.5 GB. I'm guessing the limit is number of sectors/fs, but it's easier to type in bytes than in sectors. This is backed up by somebody who emailed me stating that with their 27.5 GB drive, they had to leave off the last couple of sectors to get it to work. So, is this a bug, a kernel config, or anything you recognize? And, anything I can do to fix it? Thanks, Andy ---------------------------------------------------- Andy Dills 301-682-9972 Network Administrator Fax 301-695-4060 Xecunet, LLC www.xecu.net ---------------------------------------------------- Dialup * Webhosting * E-Commerce * High-Speed Access To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message