Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 08:49:16 +1100 From: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: -pipe switch in kernel compilation Message-ID: <00Jan12.084918est.40333@border.alcanet.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20000111130354.A10601@orion.ac.hmc.edu>; from brooks@one-eyed-alien.net on Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 07:58:12AM %2B1100 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000111133039.4135B-100000@calvin.saturn-tech.com> <200001112053.NAA06370@harmony.village.org> <20000111130354.A10601@orion.ac.hmc.edu>
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On 2000-Jan-12 07:58:12 +1100, Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> wrote: >I think that's why IBM has jumpers on some of their disks that limit >them to 2GB. I can't see why else you would want to take a perfectly >good 8GB+ disk and use it as a 2GB drive. The volumes probably mean it's not cost-effective to either continue to produce smaller older technology drives, or design a new small drive. > Of course, some of them may not even tolerate that much space. AFAIK, the BIOS in my Toshiba T1850 won't allow anything bigger than 130MB. Getting FreeBSD into my current 80MB isn't fun (and the major reason it hasn't been updated from 2.2.5 - I can't cut 3.x down far enough to fit, and -current is even larger). Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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