From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 30 10:22:47 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id KAA14764 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 30 Aug 1995 10:22:47 -0700 Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [192.216.222.226]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA14751 for ; Wed, 30 Aug 1995 10:22:42 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id KAA05374; Wed, 30 Aug 1995 10:21:23 -0700 To: fnf@amigalib.com (Fred Fish) cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 9Gb HD questions - FreeBSD 2.0.5 In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 30 Aug 1995 09:56:20 PDT." Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1995 10:21:22 -0700 Message-ID: <5372.809803282@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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' and `newfs /dev/rsda' 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