Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 23:09:36 -0500 (EST) From: Andy Dills <andy@xecu.net> To: Andrew Heybey <ath@niksun.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Maxtor 40GB HD Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.10.9912162305320.25025-100000@shell.xecu.net> In-Reply-To: <85d7s6b968.fsf@stiegl.niksun.com>
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On 16 Dec 1999, Andrew Heybey wrote: > > This is backed up by somebody who emailed me stating that with their 27.5 > > GB drive, they had to leave off the last couple of sectors to get it to > > work. > > > > So, is this a bug, a kernel config, or anything you recognize? > > And, anything I can do to fix it? > > First, it is not a fundamental bug. Proof by counter-example: > > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/ccd0c 66984252 4803840 56821672 8% /netvcr Yes, I'm not questioniong the limit of fs sizes, but that's a concat'ed fs you have there. I'm talking about a single fs on a single 40GB disk. > and there are others with much larger file systems than this. In GB or sectors? > Second, you did not provide any useful information to help anyone > figure this out such as a) what version of FreeBSD you are using, b) > exactly what arguments you are giving to newfs, c) what error messages > newfs prints when it fails, or d) what your disk label is. Version is 3.3, standard newfs args from sysinstall (-b 2192 -something 1024), the error message is a simple write error. What info from the disklabel would you like? Thanks, Andy ---------------------------------------------------- Andy Dills 301-682-9972 Network Administrator Fax 301-695-4060 Xecunet, LLC www.xecu.net ---------------------------------------------------- Dialup * Webhosting * E-Commerce * High-Speed Access To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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