From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 29 07:38:46 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA08348 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 29 May 1996 07:38:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rk.ios.com (rk.ios.com [198.4.75.55]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA08338 for ; Wed, 29 May 1996 07:38:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from rashid@localhost) by rk.ios.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA23127; Wed, 29 May 1996 10:36:49 -0400 From: Rashid Karimov Message-Id: <199605291436.KAA23127@rk.ios.com> Subject: Re: 9gig disk for freebsd To: tonyc@compnews.co.uk (Tony Clark) Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 10:36:49 -0400 (EDT) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <14035.9605291325@padua.compnews.co.uk> from "Tony Clark" at May 29, 96 02:25:11 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > If i purchase a 9gig disk, will this be supported under freebsd 2.1.0 ? Sure it will be :) You can use it as single 9 gig partition . > > > > I am looking for something like a micropolis or seagate. - i already have a > the scsi card and a 4gig disk running but i just need to know if you OS will > support above certain disk sizes unlike SunOS 4.1.2 (about 2.5 gig) What you're talking about is a partition size , not the the _disk size. One can use 9 gig with SunOS 412 , but will to partition it appropriately. If you're looking at news server solution ( as most 9 gig HDD buyers do ) I _strongly recommend to try CCD. It is _very fast ( I have it here with 3 2940Ws and 6 HDDs : 3 2 gig and 3 4 gig) and it shows ~18MB/sec throughput. Add PPro 200Mhz and 256Mb of RAM and you'll have a killer machine. > > -- > > Little Tony........ > Rashid