From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 28 10:10:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from 2711.dynacom.net (2711.dynacom.net [206.107.213.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB20637B43F for ; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 10:10:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from urx.com (dsl1-160.dynacom.net [206.159.132.160]) by 2711.dynacom.net (Build 101 8.9.3/NT-8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA07686; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 10:10:38 -0700 Message-ID: <39AA9D0F.FFC162AE@urx.com> Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 10:10:39 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Reply-To: kstewart@urx.com Organization: Dynacom X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Antoine EMERIT Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 45GB IDE drive limitation (FreeBSD .4) ? References: <024301c01110$2b8f62a0$290aa8c0@netlink.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Antoine EMERIT wrote: > > I've installed and format a 45GB IDE drive on FreeBSD 3.4. > > It seems to work but when I write on the biggest partition (41GB) it reboot > (and report then many fs problems). > > The disk is well detected (geometry ok) at boot time. > > Is there any partition or disk size limitation with IDE drive ? The largest is ~33.4GB. You probably should be using 4.1 since it will handle the drive and it also doesn't have the 1024 cylinder boot problem. Kent > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message