Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 08:11:16 -0600 From: "Bruce DeVault" <internal@intechsoft.net> To: "Andrew MacIntyre" <andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au>, "Andy Dills" <andy@xecu.net> Cc: "Andrew Heybey" <ath@niksun.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Maxtor 40GB HD Message-ID: <003701bf4af4$15443350$0c01a8c0@wkbruce> References: <Pine.OS2.3.95.991218202152.196C-100000@CENTRAL>
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> 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
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