Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 07:04:32 -0500 From: seebs@plethora.net To: "Mr G.D. Tyson" <Dave.Tyson@liverpool.ac.uk> Cc: port-i386@netbsd.org, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: O/S Support for large [512Mb] PC systems Message-ID: <199806191204.HAA25823@guild.plethora.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 19 Jun 1998 11:15:56 BST." <Pine.SOL.3.96.980619111236.14607A-100000@uxa.liv.ac.uk>
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In message <Pine.SOL.3.96.980619111236.14607A-100000@uxa.liv.ac.uk>, "Mr G.D. T yson" writes: >1) Ideally I would like the 9Gb disks to have a single large filesystem + > some swap. However I think the max size of a filesystem is limited to > 2Gb - Is this still true ? No, it hasn't been true in a long time. I do not believe there exist enough bytes to create a maximal filesystem. >4) Has anyone used any of the Supermicro boards e.g. P6DBS with the builtin > Adaptec Dual Channel UWSCSI ? or got suggestions for other suitable > motherboards (preferably ones with will take up to 1Gb RAM) I should > point out that 'the management' would REALLY like to use a commercially > available box rather than me build one out of bits ! While it's pretty much theoretical at the moment, there's some discussion of building a NetBSD support organization; if this happens, we will be happy to build systems, I suspect. And remember, it's commercial as long as someone else tightens the screws. -s To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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