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) ? Message-ID: <20000828105204.A19560@luna.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: <025f01c01114$b6531450$290aa8c0@netlink.fr>; from antoine.emerit@netlink.fr on Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 07:23:39PM %2B0200 References: <024301c01110$2b8f62a0$290aa8c0@netlink.fr> <39AA9D0F.FFC162AE@urx.com> <025f01c01114$b6531450$290aa8c0@netlink.fr>
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On Mon, 28 Aug 2000 at 19:23:39 +0200, Antoine EMERIT wrote: > From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@urx.com> > > Antoine EMERIT wrote: > > > I've installed and format a 45GB IDE drive on FreeBSD 3.4. > > > > > > It seems to work but when I write on the biggest partition (41GB) > > > it reboot (and report then many fs problems). > > > > > > The disk is well detected (geometry ok) at boot time. > > > > > > Is there any partition or disk size limitation with IDE drive ? > > > > The largest is ~33.4GB. You probably should be using 4.1 since it > > will handle the drive and it also doesn't have the 1024 cylinder > > boot problem. > > > > So, I understand why there is a 32GB jumper on this hard disk (IBM > 45GB, 7200RPM, 2MB cache). > > Is FreeBSD 4.1 stable (or near) ? It's been the -STABLE branch for over a month.. [jim@luna:~]$ 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 -- jim mock <jim@jmock.com> work: jim@osd.bsdi.com | jim@FreeBSD.org http://soupnazi.org/ BSDi Open Source Div | http://bsdi.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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