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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!news.uoregon.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!excalibur!bbj.freenix.fr!not-for-mail From: card@bbj.freenix.fr (Remy Card) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Big Disk under FreeBSD???? Date: 19 Sep 1995 01:14:25 +0200 Organization: A poor lonesome Usenet site Lines: 24 Message-ID: <43kugh$n0@bbj.freenix.fr> References: <43fdrk$o6l@titan.ci.ua.pt> <43j6cf$jmr@sidhe.hsc-sec.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: bbj.freenix.fr In article <43j6cf$jmr@sidhe.hsc-sec.fr>, Ollivier Robert <roberto@hsc.fr.net> wrote: >As a matter of fact, Linux does support more than 2 GB/per FS. It has for a >long time now. Right. The Linux Ext2fs has been running on 9GB disks for more than one year now. I have just received a report of someone using Ext2fs on a 36GB RAID array :-) >The problem is more on the 9 GB drive itself. I have some bad stories about >the new Micropolis disks. In 6 months, at least 5 Micropolis died at some >friends' sites. Be sure that it will be cooled enough. Heat is a serious >problem with all the 7200 rpm drives. Well, during the past six months two 9GB disks (one from Micropolis, and one from Seagate) died on my FTP site... I assume that this was caused by some problems in the first revisions of the disk, because the new disks that replace the defective ones work fine. >-- >Ollivier ROBERT -=-=- FreeBSD 2.x FAQ maintainer -=-=- roberto@freebsd.org >-=-=-=-=-=- Support The Free UNIX Systems ! FreeBSD Linux NetBSD -=-=-=-=-=- Remy