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Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 10:52:04 -0700
From: Jim Mock <jim@jmock.com>
To: Antoine EMERIT <antoine.emerit@netlink.fr>
Cc: kstewart@urx.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: 45GB IDE drive limitation (FreeBSD .4) ?
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On Mon, 28 Aug 2000 at 19:23:39 +0200, 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.
> >
> 
> 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 the -STABLE branch for over a month..

[jim@luna:~]$ uname -a
FreeBSD luna.osd.bsdi.com 4.1-STABLE FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE #0: Sun Aug 27
19:36:50 PDT 2000     jim@luna.osd.bsdi.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/LUNA
i386
[jim@luna:~]$ 

I haven't had any problems with it.

- jim

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