From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Mar 1 16: 6: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from darius.concentric.net (darius.concentric.net [207.155.198.79]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E74A37BD6D for ; Wed, 1 Mar 2000 16:05:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mlduke@concentric.net) Received: from mcfeely.concentric.net (mcfeely.concentric.net [207.155.198.83]) by darius.concentric.net (8.9.1a/(98/12/15 5.12)) id TAA22661; Wed, 1 Mar 2000 19:05:57 -0500 (EST) [1-800-745-2747 The Concentric Network] Received: from ts003d16.mer-id.concentric.net (ts003d16.mer-id.concentric.net [206.173.184.124]) by mcfeely.concentric.net (8.9.1a) id TAA12329; Wed, 1 Mar 2000 19:05:32 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 16:02:58 -0700 (MST) From: mlduke To: Jay Oliver Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Does FreeBSD have any issues with larger IDE drives? In-Reply-To: <000d01bf83ce$0bd84e10$2260e4d0@CHAOS> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I would take this to the questions list were I you. We are Unix people, but not subscribed to "newbies" for nothing. Perhaps the same thing happened in the Linux community. ML Duke > I realize this is probably a silly question to ask, yet when I did ask the > linux community (circa 2.2.13) the same question, the answer was a > resounding no... and completely wrong. I completely lost all the data on > the drive due to it seeing every cluster after a certain point and just > wiping them in the bootup fsck. So I ask you now, are there any known > issues with large (meaning 33.8+ gig) IDE drives currently in the 3.4 > release? If not, are there any things I should be aware of, as it is > currently one large ext2 partition? Can I leave it as such without any > problems? > > Thank you, > - Jay Oliver > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message