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From: julian@mailhub.tfs.com (Julian Elischer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: SCSI geometry on 9GB Seagate
Date: 1 Dec 1995 06:26:18 GMT
Organization: TRW Financial Systems, Oakland, CA
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Message-ID: <49m76a$hnc@times.tfs.com>
References: <49b1vo$3ha@news1.is.net> <49li5i$kbp@park.uvsc.edu>
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In article <49li5i$kbp@park.uvsc.edu>,
Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> wrote:
>David Bixby <bix@otcinc.com> wrote:
>
>Uh, how big a partition?
>
>DOS partitioning is limited to 8G, period.
well, not really
under DOS it might be,
but under FreeBSD, no, there is a 32 bit field describing the size..
the end cyl/sec/head stuff ihas a limit, but nothing uses it :)
(not for the freeBSD partition anyway..
>Disklabel is (I think) also limited to 8G offsets.
I don't think so..
>
>You will need to make 2 or more (probably at least 3 to force them
>below 4G each) partitions.
I think this has changed terry, I think there is a 9GB drive at WC
as a (single) news partition .
>
>Or fix the slice code and modify disklabel handling yourself.
shouldn't be needed
> Terry Lambert
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