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From: "Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira" <lioux@gns.com.br>
To: "Doug White" <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>,
        "Craig Wilson" <craig@natsoft.com.au>
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Subject: Re: IDE Drives Greater Than 2048MBytes
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 09:04:51 -0300
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> > Will FreeBSD support a partition over 2048MBytes in length, or is this
> > just a problem with the bad block scanning program?
> 
> freeBSD will have no problem, it must be a bug in bad144.  This is the
> first time I've heard of this.

	I've seen the same odd behavior. It happened with 3 different systems I
tried to work with.
	Whenever I tried a partition size over 2048Mb the bad144 check crashed.

	Regards,
		Mario Ferreira.