Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1995 10:21:22 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: fnf@amigalib.com (Fred Fish) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 9Gb HD questions - FreeBSD 2.0.5 Message-ID: <5372.809803282@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 30 Aug 1995 09:56:20 PDT." <m0snqR3-0004nYC@amigalib.com>
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> I recently tried to add a Seagate 9Gb ST410800N to a previously installed > FreeBSD 2.0.5 system, with no luck. I ended up doing a reinstall of the What did you try? This should have been a simply `disklabel -r -e sd<n>' and `newfs /dev/rsd<n>a' operation.. You say you had no luck with these? Can you perhaps be more specific, Fred? > On a related note, I partitioned the new drive with two 4000Mb > (slightly less than 4Gb) partitions and a smaller leftover. That > seems to work, though I haven't yet filled them to capacity to make > sure that there are no problems with large partitions. Should this > be OK or should I not go over 2Gb, as on Unixware, where this drive > came from. This should work just fine. In fact, I have one of these exact same drives partitioned as *one* partition and it works just great on news.cdrom.com: /dev/sd1s1 7801705 6576314 601254 92% /a/news Jordan
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