From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 18 11: 2: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from posgate.acis.com.au (posgate.acis.com.au [203.14.230.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5468E14C47 for ; Sat, 18 Dec 1999 11:01:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au) Received: from bullseye.apana.org.au (uucp@localhost) by posgate.acis.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with UUCP id GAA25314; Sun, 19 Dec 1999 06:01:37 +1100 Received: from bullseye.apana.org.au (central.apana.org.au [203.9.107.245]) by bullseye.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA25150; Sat, 18 Dec 1999 21:37:16 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au) Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1999 20:30:30 +1100 (EDT) From: Andrew MacIntyre To: Andy Dills Cc: Andrew Heybey , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Maxtor 40GB HD In-Reply-To: Message-ID: X-X-Sender: andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, Andy Dills wrote: > Version is 3.3, standard newfs args from sysinstall (-b 2192 -something > 1024), the error message is a simple write error. What info from the > disklabel would you like? This is just an off the wall theory from an interested observer with not a lot of detailed knowledge.... How much memory does this system have? Real? Swap? Are you doing this from an install floppy? Does it happen immediately on starting the newfs or after some processing? I notice that you found a limit of around 27GB, while someone else (with a different but similarly large drive) found a limit around 32GB. Yet others have created Vinum arrays with file systems double this. I'm wondering if the newfs attempt is actually bringing around some sort of memory starvation, which is wrongly being reported? -- Andrew I MacIntyre "These thoughts are mine alone..." E-mail: andrew.macintyre@aba.gov.au (work) | Snail: PO Box 370 andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au (play) | Belconnen ACT 2616 Fido: Andrew MacIntyre, 3:620/243.18 | Australia To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message