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From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: FreeBSD installation on very big SCSI hard drives
Date: 4 Jun 94 06:03:25
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In-reply-to: wmaton@calvin.chin.doc.ca's message of Wed, 1 Jun 1994 20:10:19 -400 (EDT)
In article <Pine.3.89.9406012001.F11505-0100000@calvin.chin.doc.ca> wmaton@calvin.chin.doc.ca ("William F. Maton") writes:
On Tue, 31 May 1994, Chuck Robey wrote:
> I have a machine with 1005 megs of scsi, with the bottom 200 devoted
> (grudgingly) to dos, and the rest to FreeBSD. It works fine now,
> but I had just about every problem I read on the mail. To get it
> working, I had to strip the machine down to it's minimums, get FreeBSD
> working at that point, then add boards and fix incompatiblities one
> by one. By one. By one. But it works finally, and how!
Yegads! I've been snooping around the Linux camp for a bit, and it seems
they may be moving to crack this nut. I noticed they caught a lot of the
Adaptec 1542CF specific stuff in there latest builds besides the large
drive support. Still, one should not have to do that with FreeBSD. Has
anyone considered making test kernals ranging from bare bones device
support up to the current kernals and putting each one in an install
floppy set?
I've got a 1908Mb SCSI-2 disk sitting on a SCSI-1 Adaptec 1542B with a
partition using the last 600Mb of the disk, and I've only had one occasional
glitch (but not since FreeBSD-1.1). Every now and again the machine would
lose the sd1 (1908Mb) disklabel, but a simple disklabel solved the problem
every time.
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....