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Date:      Mon, 28 Aug 2000 11:09:54 -0700
From:      Kent Stewart <kstewart@urx.com>
To:        Antoine EMERIT <antoine.emerit@netlink.fr>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 45GB IDE drive limitation (FreeBSD .4) ?
Message-ID:  <39AAAAF2.BA680C7@urx.com>
References:  <024301c01110$2b8f62a0$290aa8c0@netlink.fr> <39AA9D0F.FFC162AE@urx.com> <025f01c01114$b6531450$290aa8c0@netlink.fr>

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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).

Yes, but I would want the whole thing and you get it with 4.1.

> 
> Is FreeBSD 4.1 stable (or near) ?

The stable branch is a dynamic thing. Some of the atapi-cd logic was
broken on 22 Aug and fixed a few days later. It worked on the
developer machine but I couldn't mount a CD. 

I think -stable is always better than a -release because things are
fixed. You just may have to cvsup twice to get it fixed :).

Kent

> 
> Cheers
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