From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 28 11:10: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from 2711.dynacom.net (2711.dynacom.net [206.107.213.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F91A37B43E for ; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 11:09:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from urx.com (dsl1-160.dynacom.net [206.159.132.160]) by 2711.dynacom.net (Build 101 8.9.3/NT-8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA07880; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 11:09:54 -0700 Message-ID: <39AAAAF2.BA680C7@urx.com> Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 11:09:54 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Reply-To: kstewart@urx.com Organization: Dynacom X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Antoine EMERIT Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 45GB IDE drive limitation (FreeBSD .4) ? References: <024301c01110$2b8f62a0$290aa8c0@netlink.fr> <39AA9D0F.FFC162AE@urx.com> <025f01c01114$b6531450$290aa8c0@netlink.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Antoine EMERIT wrote: > > From: Kent Stewart > > > > 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 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message