From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 29 15:40:55 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA17910 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 29 May 1996 15:40:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailhub.aros.net (mailhub.aros.net [205.164.111.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA17897 for ; Wed, 29 May 1996 15:40:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from terra.aros.net (terra.aros.net [205.164.111.10]) by mailhub.aros.net (8.7.5/Unknown) with ESMTP id RAA06136; Wed, 29 May 1996 17:11:26 -0600 (MDT) Received: (from angio@localhost) by terra.aros.net (8.7.5/8.6.12) id QAA04739; Wed, 29 May 1996 16:40:35 -0600 From: Dave Andersen Message-Id: <199605292240.QAA04739@terra.aros.net> Subject: Re: 9gig disk for freebsd To: tonyc@compnews.co.uk (Tony Clark) Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 16:40:35 -0600 (MDT) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <14035.9605291325@padua.compnews.co.uk> from "Tony Clark" at May 29, 96 02:25:11 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25 PGP2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Someone already replied and said yes; the answer is yes. :) But as a note of caution: One of the worst mistakes we've ever made was choosing to use a Micropolis 9gb hard drive in two of our servers. Micropolis built in a feature to both of the drives we purchased: They crash like you wouldn't believe. Go with smaller drives (we've found drives in the 2gb-4gb range to be perfect) and either split your files up over them, or use the ccd to stripe them together. -Dave Andersen Lo and behold, Tony Clark once said: > > > If i purchase a 9gig disk, will this be supported under freebsd 2.1.0 ? > > > > I am looking for something like a micropolis or seagate. - i already have a > the scsi card and a 4gig disk running but i just need to know if you OS will > support above certain disk sizes unlike SunOS 4.1.2 (about 2.5 gig) > > -- > > Little Tony........ > > Systems Administrator (PA Data Design) > -- angio@aros.net Complete virtual hosting and business-oriented system administration Internet services. (WWW, FTP, email) http://www.aros.net/ http://www.aros.net/about/virtual "There are only two industries that refer to thier customers as 'users'."