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From: julian@tfs.com (Julian Elischer)
Subject: Re: FreeBSD installation on very big SCSI hard drives
Message-ID: <CqvL01.9zF@tfs.com>
Organization: TRW Financial Systems, Oakland, CA
References: <Pine.3.89.9406012001.F11505-0100000@calvin.chin.doc.ca>
Date: Sat, 4 Jun 1994 13:48:00 GMT
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In article <Pine.3.89.9406012001.F11505-0100000@calvin.chin.doc.ca> wmaton@calvin.chin.doc.ca ("William F. Maton") writes:
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>On Tue, 31 May 1994, Chuck Robey wrote:
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>> 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,
[.....]
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>Yegads! I've been snooping around the Linux camp for a bit, and it seems
[..]
>drive support. Still, one should not have to do that with FreeBSD. Has
>anyone considered making test kernals ranging from bare bones device
[....]
I'm afraid I don't understand the problem with large drives...
we are going to gaet problems when drive sizes get > 4GB but the next version of
FreeBSD will have 64 bit file offsets so that'll go away.
The SCSI system has always worked with drives > 1GB..
I don't understand how people would think there was a problem..
obviously I'm missing something here..
The freebsd adaptec and sd drivers do the right hings as far as I know..
if ther are problems, I've not heard of them..
The second disk I ran the code on after I wrote it was a 1.2GB drive.
and it's never failed to run on that drive since..
yours confusedly
julian