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From: Drew Sanford <drew@planetwe.com>
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To: Antoine EMERIT <antoine.emerit@netlink.fr>
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Subject: Re: 45GB IDE drive limitation (FreeBSD .4) ?
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Antoine EMERIT wrote:
> 
> 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) ?
> 

It's been very stable on my dual CPU P233 under reasonably heavy loads.
I haven't had problem one out of it.

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