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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak!root From: root@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Charlie &) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD installation on very big SCSI hard drives Date: 04 Jun 1994 19:08:36 GMT Organization: Coverform Ltd. Lines: 27 Message-ID: <ROOT.94Jun4190836@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> References: <Pine.3.89.9406012001.F11505-0100000@calvin.chin.doc.ca> <CqvL01.9zF@tfs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.demon.co.uk In-reply-to: julian@tfs.com's message of Sat, 4 Jun 1994 13:48:00 GMT In article <CqvL01.9zF@tfs.com> julian@tfs.com (Julian Elischer) writes: [stuff deleted] I'm afraid I don't understand the problem with large drives... [stuff deleted] I don't understand how people would think there was a problem.. [stuff deleted] 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 I use a 1908Mb disk and have no problem. I suspect the percieved problem is the standard 10-bit sector start/end numbers in the partition table. I'm not sure how FreeBSD dodges this problem... does it just ignore these numbers and use the other start/size pair (>10-bits) ? -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....