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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!info.ucla.edu!library.ucla.edu!agate!tfs.com!mailhub.tfs.com!julian From: julian@mailhub.tfs.com (Julian Elischer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: DNS, FTP & Mail - for ISP Date: 10 Oct 1995 10:54:52 GMT Organization: TRW Financial Systems, Oakland, CA Lines: 17 Message-ID: <45djds$ktc@times.tfs.com> References: <44mmsd$1lda@news.gate.net> <450tf7$4n0@tzlink.j51.com> <454bpu$eev@uriah.heep.sax.de> <459tpi$g6v@tzlink.j51.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: mailhub.tfs.com In article <459tpi$g6v@tzlink.j51.com>, Louis Epstein <lepslog@j51.com> wrote: > >Be that as it may,BusLogic and Adaptec are now making cards that can only >handle 8GB or smaller drives. Bzzzzzzzt... wrong.. Their BIOS can only handle 8GB drives.. FreeBSD doesn't use the bios (except to boot) so our limit is 2^41 bytes per device. (I should know, I wrote the scsi disk driver) you should keep the root partition within the first 1023 cylinders (according to BIOS) or you may not be able to reach the kernel with the BIOS bootblocks.. that's the only limitation..