Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 12:56:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Caninet Administration <admin@caninet.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 12 G hard drive and FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980421125322.4074b-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199804211959.PAA03545@caninet.com>
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On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, Caninet Administration wrote: > Hello, > > I have just started to use FreeBSD (have been using Digital Unix for about > 4 years) and have installed it on PII 233 with 128M RAM. System is working > good, but I like to run a second news server on this machine and have just > got 4 BIGFOOT TX 12 G hard disks as well. Ugh. :( 12gb? It's going to bite for a news server, and the Bigfoots are known flaky drives. I've only been around two drives that have blown up and that's one of them. Ideally you probably want to make an array out of 4GB drives and split them across several controllers, then use ccd to stripe them together. > My problem is that I can't figure out how to let FreeBSD know that it is 12 > G drives and not 8 G. I tried disklabel and editor, also have tried visual > configuration but nothing worked. I even tried to make two dos partitions > on one drive and FreeBSD is still showing only 8 G. > > Why? > > Does FreeBSD support 12 G or higher than 8 G IDE or SCSI? It should allow any size FS; we've had 4 terabyte FSs. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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