From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jan 11 13:57:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from alcanet.com.au (border.alcanet.com.au [203.62.196.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8125915056 for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2000 13:57:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jeremyp@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au) Received: by border.alcanet.com.au id <40333>; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 08:49:18 +1100 Content-return: prohibited From: Peter Jeremy Subject: Re: -pipe switch in kernel compilation In-reply-to: <20000111130354.A10601@orion.ac.hmc.edu>; from brooks@one-eyed-alien.net on Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 07:58:12AM +1100 To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Message-Id: <00Jan12.084918est.40333@border.alcanet.com.au> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii References: <200001112053.NAA06370@harmony.village.org> <20000111130354.A10601@orion.ac.hmc.edu> Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 08:49:16 +1100 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 2000-Jan-12 07:58:12 +1100, Brooks Davis 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