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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
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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
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		Remy