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Subject: Re: 45GB IDE drive limitation (FreeBSD .4) ?
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 19:23:39 +0200
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From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@urx.com>
>
> 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

So, I understand why there is a 32GB jumper on this hard disk (IBM 45GB,
7200RPM, 2MB cache).

Is FreeBSD 4.1 stable (or near) ?

Cheers




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