From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 20 6:11:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.intechsoft.net (okcds1-blk1-hfc-0251-d1db0faa.rdc1.ok.coxatwork.com [209.219.15.170]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D28C15097 for ; Mon, 20 Dec 1999 06:11:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from internal@intechsoft.net) Received: from wkbruce ([192.168.1.12]) by fw.intechsoft.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id IAA68782; Mon, 20 Dec 1999 08:11:16 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from internal@intechsoft.net) Message-ID: <003701bf4af4$15443350$0c01a8c0@wkbruce> From: "Bruce DeVault" To: "Andrew MacIntyre" , "Andy Dills" Cc: "Andrew Heybey" , References: Subject: Re: Maxtor 40GB HD Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 08:11:16 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 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? I doubt it, at least in my case... the machine I first attempted it on had 160MB of ram, and I recreated the issue with the same drives on a totally dissimilar machine but similar sources with 256MB of ram. Bruce DeVault InTech Software To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message