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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: [Q] How to add 4.3GB disk (Quantum XP34300)?
Date: 11 Jul 1996 20:10:30 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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franky@pinewood.nl (Frank ten Wolde) wrote:


> 	... lseek(fd, blocks * 512, 0);
> 
> When blocks > appr 2000000, the result becomes negative and the
> following read/write fails!
> Problem has been reported to the FreeBSD core team.

Yep, Jordan has checked in the fix a couple of days ago.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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